Jean M. Auel Quotes - Page 2

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• The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

  Jean M. Auel

  Ideas, Giving, Stories

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

  Jean M. Auel

  Writing, Influence, Knows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

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  Together, Young, Clans

  Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.53, Bantam

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• I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

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  Moving, Writing, Character

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• I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the mainstream public that chooses my books for the most part.

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  Book, Ideas, Fiction

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• Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

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  Thinking, Two, Fiction

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• Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

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  Book, Simple, Perspective

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• It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

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  Years, Twenties, Research

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• I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.

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  Writing, Ideas, Stories

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• I really fell in love with Africa.

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• I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

  Jean M. Auel

  Character, Eye, Tears

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