Diana Gabaldon Quotes

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

People do write books.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I can't contain how enthusiastic I am about working on books for kids.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.

Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything I could find.

I want to write books.

When people ask me for secrets to writing, I say, 'Read to write.'

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.

My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

The writers of books are companions in one's life and, as such, are often more interesting than other companions.

You can't write if you don't read.

I'm working with published authors and some very young undergraduates and lots of people in between. They are lovely people, and they can write.