Jean M. Auel Quotes

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

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

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

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.

No, my publisher has always done the marketing.