Diana Gabaldon

Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up. ”

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some. ”

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict. ”

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades. ”

When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction. ”

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

When I am at home writing, I have all the power. I am God. But TV is a polytheistic universe. ”