Diana Gabaldon Quotes

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

The matter does not appear to me now as it has appears to have appeared to me then.

I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

I don't read reviews.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

Having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them.

I read one Jane Austen in college and didn't like it at all and told everyone how much I disliked it. I read 'Northanger Abbey' sophomore year in college and hated it. I didn't read good Austen until after college, maybe a couple years out.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.

I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

Students often say things that they will one day change their minds about, but also things that change our minds when we think about them.

Of all my childhood books, 'The Giving Tree and Hope for the Flowers' really did change my early world, but after reading 'Momo' in my 30s, I thought, Ahhhhhh, this is the one book I wish I had read as a kid! Then reread at every subsequent chapter of my life.

I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.