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Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Story Learn You Find Know Want

I never got too specialized but did like the Southern Gothic writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

Never Got Southern Like Gothic Did

I'm not an innovator.

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

World Negative Philosophy Sociology

I was writing from a very, very early age. My father used to write. He died early, and my mother was a schoolteacher, so my academic background from childhood is a strong one, a good one.

Good Father Mother Age Childhood

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

People Friends Enjoy Look Know Want

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Christopher Hampton

Marriage Happiness Woman Morals More

I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Work Time Best Past People Night

Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.

Cold Ownership Robots More Human

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Light Shadow I Am Thoughts Feelings

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

You Citizen Human Human Being Being

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

Great Politics Talking Enjoy Deal

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Class Anything Social Clear Only

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