Diana Gabaldon Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Character, Thinking

• You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open, interested feel to them, even if closed and neatly lined up on a shelf in strict order with their fellows. You felt as though the book took as much interest in you as you did in it and was willing to help when you reached for it.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Order, Library

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.249, Delacorte Press

• A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Famous Book, Cry

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.5749, Dell

• I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Reading, Years

• 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.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Beginnings And Ends, Plot

• When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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