Words matter. These are the best Jean M. Auel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
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’m just writing a story that I want to read.
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
I really fell in love with Africa.
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.
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
From the beginning, the series has been story driven – I began with a story idea – but research feeds it.
I can’t tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don’t know what my influences are.
From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.
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.
I think of my books as mainstream and that’s were most people who read them look for them in book stores.
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
