“I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic book...” — Diana Gabaldon Quote

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

I read tons of comic books. My favourite is Grant Morrison, a Scottish comic writer.