Jean M. Auel Quotes

• Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

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• I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I’ve really studied it.

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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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• I really fell in love with Africa.

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• I’m just writing a story that I want to read.

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• 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.

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• No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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• I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it.

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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.

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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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• Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it’s the science of prehistory – palaeontology and archaeology – rather than astronomy or physics.

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

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• I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand it and I’m not at all surprised that readers of the genre might enjoy my books.

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

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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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• Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

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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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• Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

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• Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.

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• From the beginning, the series has been story driven – I began with a story idea – but research feeds it.

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Birth:	18th February, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jean Marie Auel was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an American novelist. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of novels. As of 2010, her books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide. She earned an MBA degree from the University of Portland in 1976. She has written several novels include: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, and The Land of Painted Caves. She married Ray Bernard Auel. They have five children.

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