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Date Posted: Sat, April 09 2022, 21:03:27
Author: CindyG
Subject: QOTD for Sunday, April 10, 2022

The following quote is from The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated), by Diana Gabaldon, “Prologue.” Copyright © 1999, 2015 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.

“Well, it was all an accident, is what it was. I wasn’t trying to be published; I wasn’t even going to show it to anyone. I just wanted to write a book—any kind of book.
Not actually any kind of book. Fiction. See, I’m a storyteller. I can’t take any particular credit for this—I was born that way. When my sister and I were very young and shared a bedroom, we stayed up far into the night, nearly every night, telling enormous, convoluted, continuing stories, with casts of thousands (like I said, I was born with this).”

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[> Never made up stories, but memorized and acted them out. The problem was that I was usually obsessed with a book no one else had ever heard of. -- kgp, Sun, April 10 2022, 12:54:08


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[> My sister and I used to make up stories too, but never with a "cast of thousands." Neither of us became authors either, but I loved hearing Diana's story of where it all came from. -- DianaH, Mon, April 11 2022, 10:10:29


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