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Diana Gabaldon Quotes

If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1952

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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

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I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.

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You Know Sometimes Nothing Listen

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

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I really like to entertain myself in various ways when I'm writing.

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I think about that 'empty' space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

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With the areas which have no oil, the idea is to create industry and jobs.

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When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

Sol LeWitt

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I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.

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I Am Way Always Been Perfectionist

I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.

Toni Trucks

Thought Plan Always Original Just

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If someone pitches me a really great idea for an album, I would do it.

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Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

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Good Someone Look Nice Content Move