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" I've never seen anyone deal in a literary way with what it takes to stay married for more than 50 years, and that seemed like a worthy goal. "
Diana Galbadon
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" I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text. "
Diana Galbadon
Understand
Story
Pictures
" 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! "
Diana Galbadon
Doctor
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Day
" A romance is a courtship story. In the 19th century, the definition of the romance genre was an escape from daily life that included adventure and love and battle. But in the 20th century, that term changed, and now it's deemed only a love story, specifically a courtship story. "
Diana Galbadon
Daily Life
Adventure
Love
" 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. "
Diana Galbadon
Events
Language
Look
" Normally, it takes me about three years to write one of the big books. It is usually four years between releases because of the huge amount of travel and PR and just nuisance going on around them. I have a lot of pressure from publishers and agents. "
Diana Galbadon
Big
Three
Pressure
" 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. "
Diana Galbadon
Look
Me
You
" I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline. I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. "
Diana Galbadon
Things Happen
Work
Together
" Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.' "
Diana Galbadon
Someone
Relationship
Mind
" 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.' "
Diana Galbadon
You
Three
Say
" In a great many stories that deal with time travel, there's usually somebody who knows how time travel works. They lay out the rules. "
Diana Galbadon
Rules
Travel
Time Travel
" 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. "
Diana Galbadon
Today
Know
Think
" 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. "
Diana Galbadon
You
Start
Song
" 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. "
Diana Galbadon
Snow
Award
Book
" 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? "
Diana Galbadon
Strong
Stupid
Think