American - Writer | February 18, 1936 -
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.
Jean M. Auel
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I really fell in love with Africa.
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.
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From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
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The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
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I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
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Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
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