American - Author | January 11, 1952 -
Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.
Diana Gabaldon
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I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.
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If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.
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Some time later, long after 'Voyager' was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version, and it told me the Dunbonnet's name - which was James Fraser.
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I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.
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I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.
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I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'
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The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.
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In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.
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I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think I was in the sixth grade at the time, so it probably wasn't assigned reading.
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I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.
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I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.
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