Diana Gabaldon Quotes

All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and easier because I now do know where we're going, and I know what's motivating these people, why they were here, and therefore, I have some good idea how they got there, and so I can fill in the missing chunks somewhat more easily.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If I've got something do. I'm going to attack it. I'm going to attack that stress.

Jocko Willink

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I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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Personally, I would love to see every gun on the planet disappear.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

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I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

Tom Hooper

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We have a government that purposely counterfeits and debases the currencies, and I believe that the alternative would be a competition. That means that anything that wants to substitute for the American dollar should be permitted.

Ron Paul

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

WisdomYourselfIdeasYouWillOwn

I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.

Ross MacDonald

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I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.

Lizzie Armitstead

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Mitch Miller knew exactly what he wanted me to sing. He didn't want me to improvise at all.

Johnny Mathis

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We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed.

Dean Kamen

LiveIdeasWorldYouWantMore

Part of the power of having startup communities is it continues to challenge the status quo. So for many of these cities that were once very important and powerful that today are struggling, startup communities are a way for them to rejuvenate themselves.

Brad Feld

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