Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn’t want to depend on Web sources for historical analysis. There’s just something hard to beat about a book. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
There’s not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted – but there is one well-known painting of the two sons of the Duke of Argyll, wearing tartan. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man in a kilt, so essentially I began with Jamie, although I had no idea what his name was at the time. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
You won’t have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there’s no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
I read some books, and I thought, ‘This is better than sliced bread!’ and a month later, I couldn’t remember thinking about it. And I’ve read others that were kind of a slog, and I’ve put them down and come back six months later thinking, ‘Wow, this is great.’ So, you know, things change all the time. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what’s been done – or, at least, dissatisfied. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe. Diana Gabaldon Read Quote
