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Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body. -- Jean M. Auel
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There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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I'm just writing a story that I want to read. -- Jean M. Auel
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Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met. -- Jean M. Auel
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No, my publisher has always done the marketing. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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Roe Deer, when your spirit returns to the Great Earth Mother, thank Her for giving us one of your kind, that we may eat, Jondalar said quietly. -- Jean M. Auel
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Ayla just didn't seem like a woman who was about to join and establish a new hearth with a man she loved. There was no joy, no excitement. Something was missing. Something called Jondalar. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures. -- Jean M. Auel
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A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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As Creb looked at the peaceful, trusting face of the strange girl in his lap, he felt a deep love flowering in his soul for her. He couldn't have loved her more if she were his own. -- Jean M. Auel
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Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. -- Jean M. Auel
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You need no call, you were born to this destiny. But you will be tested. You will cause pain and suffer for it ... -- Jean M. Auel
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Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said. -- Jean M. Auel
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I'd done so many things I wasn't supposed to do that by then I was ready to try any idea that came to me. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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I really fell in love with Africa. -- Jean M. Auel
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South Holding, was the acknowledged leader of the Twenty-ninth Cave, but Summer Camp and -- Jean M. Auel
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flickering lamps scattered here -- Jean M. Auel
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The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us from killing a deer, or other animals, we would not live long. The -- Jean M. Auel
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They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. -- Jean M. Auel
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Life sometimes gets in the way of writing. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands ... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. -- Jean M. Auel
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Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. -- Jean M. Auel
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She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won. -- Jean M. Auel
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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me. -- Jean M. Auel
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You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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Brun, this is the man Ayla saw as whole. This is the man who set her standard. This is the man she loves and compares with her son. Look at me, my brother! Did I deserve to live? Does Ayla's son deserve to live less?" The -- Jean M. Auel
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Countered. I suspect the story was made up by a woman who had a -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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Great Mother!I can't believe it!Now I understand."(Mamut)
"I do not understand," Ayla said -- Jean M. Auel
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I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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But why should they blame her? They should blame the men who won't let her alone, -- Jean M. Auel
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nightmares of earthquakes, and -- Jean M. Auel
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Ayla should have been the son of my mate. Brun to Broud, Clan of the Cave Bear. -- Jean M. Auel
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figure of the First. -- Jean M. Auel
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Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something. -- Jean M. Auel
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Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. -- Jean M. Auel
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Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them. -- Jean M. Auel
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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. -- Jean M. Auel
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It's called ergot. Smell -- Jean M. Auel
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The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do? -- Jean M. Auel
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was dark and no more inviting -- Jean M. Auel
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He's part me and part Clan, and so is Ura. Or rather, she's part Oda and part that man who killed her baby. -- Jean M. Auel
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The difference in the brains of men and women was imposed by nature, and only cemented by culture. -- Jean M. Auel
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Nothing works all the time -- Jean M. Auel