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Diana Gabaldon

Profession : Author

Birth : January 11, 1952

I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.

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If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

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Some time later, long after 'Voyager' was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version, and it told me the Dunbonnet's name - which was James Fraser.

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I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

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If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

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I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough.

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I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that yet.'

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The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

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In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

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I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think I was in the sixth grade at the time, so it probably wasn't assigned reading.

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I don't think I ever consciously separated 'school' books from any others; I just read anything that came across my path.

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I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

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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.

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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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