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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction. There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say, 'You're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.
- Book Signings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings and unzip their pants, turn around, and drop them to show me that they had 'Bonnie lassie' tattooed across their rumpuses!
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People ask me why I write strong women, and I say, 'Well, I don't like stupid ones.' Who would want to read about weak and whiny women? Are they people who assume women are weak and whiny? If so, why do they think that?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, years ago, in 1988, the only TV I watched was 'Doctor Who' because I had children and two full-time jobs, and 'Doctor Who' was the exact length of time it took to do my nails, so I would watch 'Doctor Who' once a week!
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander' the musical. His idea was to start with a CD of what you call a song cycle, with a dozen high points of the projected show. It turned out very well, though we had to stop doing it when the TV show came along.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020