Jean M. Auel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I really fell in love with Africa.”

“I think of my books as mainstream and that's were most people who read them look for them in book stores.”

“I'm just writing a story that I want to read.”

“Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.”

“No, my publisher has always done the marketing.”

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

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

“And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.”

“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.”

“I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.”