Diana Gabaldon : (10) " It’s worth noting that at the time of the American Revolution, no sane person would have given two cents for its success. " - Diana Gabaldon " I was writing ‘Outlander’ for practise and didn’t want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn’t very well announce to my husband that I was quitting my job and abandoning him with three small children to visit Scotland to do research for a novel that I hadn’t told him I was writing. " - Diana Gabaldon " 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 Gabaldon " ‘Rob Roy’ was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than ‘Braveheart.’ " - Diana Gabaldon " Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn’t just spring out of the library shelves. " - Diana Gabaldon " We started watching ‘Doctor Who’ as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during the night – and it was her dad’s job to stay up because I worked at night. " - Diana Gabaldon " There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth’s crust, and most of the time, these run in opposing directions – forward and backward. In some places, they deviate and will cross each other, and when that happens, you kind of get a geomagnetic mess going in all different directions. I call these vertices. " - Diana Gabaldon " 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 Gabaldon " 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 " I’ve never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don’t know – I don’t plan the books out ahead of time. So I have no idea how much ground we’ll cover. " - Diana Gabaldon