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Diana Gabaldon Quote

“What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.”

— Diana Gabaldon

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I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

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Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

— Diana Gabaldon

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I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

— Diana Gabaldon

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Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

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