American - Author | January 11, 1952 -
Oh, 'Pandaemonium', by Chris Brookmyre! Just fabulous - such a layered, beautifully structured, engaging, intelligent book. I love all Chris's stuff, but this was remarkable.
Diana Gabaldon
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I cannot remember not being able to read.
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I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading.
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My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.
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You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn to read in order to find out.
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Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up.
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I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'
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I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.
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Each book develops a strong organic shape. And when that shape is complete, the book is complete. I don't know where the end is. I don't start at the beginning. It's like playing Tetris in my head in a very slow kind of way. All the shapes join up.
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People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.
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While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about it because of all the little new touches and twists. I watch it in utter fascination waiting to see what will happen.
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I'm not a team player. I'm used to having total control over everything I do.
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