People Quotes by Diana Gabaldon

18 People quotes by Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon’s 18 passages on people weave a gentle tapestry of empathy, inviting readers to feel the quiet strength that binds us across stories and time.

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People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years.

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Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.

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“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story;…

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Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the…

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

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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…

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Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't…

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There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn't do that. Basically, they're upset that I didn't rewrite…

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If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No…

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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…

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I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or…

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Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with…

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Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion…

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All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and…

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I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and…

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We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared…

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At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid…

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I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and…

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Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "…

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There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on…

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If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him…

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When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on…

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I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscuits and go…

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“It was…hard. I didna call out, or let them see I was scairt, but I couldna keep my feet. Halfway through it, I fell…

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I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

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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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“We are bound,you and I, and nothing on this earth shall part me from you."One large hand rose to stroke my hair. "D'ye mind…

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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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My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy…

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“My Da says you’re never drunk, so long as ye can hold on to the floor.”

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When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

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“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other,…

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“I didn’t answer, occupied in dissolving the penicillin tablets in the vial of sterile water. I selected a glass barrel, fitted a needle, and…

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