"I started writing to please myself, a story……" — Jean M. Auel
"I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true."
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37 Quotes by Jean M. Auel
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She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.
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No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
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My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other…
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I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know…
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The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
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Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on…
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I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the…
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I really fell in love with Africa.
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I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
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Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
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And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the…
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I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not…
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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you…
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well…
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right,…
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I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because…
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