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Jean M. Auel

American

February 18, 1936

Writer

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No, my publisher has always done the marketing.

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

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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

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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 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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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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