Quotes from Diana Gabaldon

And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?

At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

I've read a lot of classic literature from assorted cultures, and always glad to read more when one comes across my path - but why be embarrassed by the fact that flesh and blood has limits? Nobody's read everything.

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?

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.

I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.

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.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

I do recall loving 'All Quiet on the Western Front,' and I know I read it in a schoolroom, but I think I was in the sixth grade at the time, so it probably wasn't assigned reading.

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.

Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

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

If I die before I say 'I love you' it's because I didn't have the time.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written.