People have been trying to make a two-hour feature film of 'Outlander' for years and years and years. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story;… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
All of my books have an internal geometric shape, and once I've seen the shape, then the writing gets much faster and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice. "'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I didn't want to tell the story of what makes two people come together, although that's a theme of great power and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, "… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“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 into the post, just—just hangin’ from the ropes, ken, wi’ the blood…runnin’ down my legs. They thought for a bit that I’d died—and Da must ha’ thought so, too. They told me he put his hand… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“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 the blood vow that I swore ye when we wed?" "Yes,I think so.'Blood of my blood,bone of my bone...'" "I give ye my body, that we may be one," he finished. "Aye, and I have kept… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“My Da says you’re never drunk, so long as ye can hold on to the floor.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
