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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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From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.
Jean M. Auel
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
Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.
Jean M. Auel
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
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
Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive.
Jean M. Auel
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
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
Jean M. Auel
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
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
I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.
Jean M. Auel
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
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
Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.
Jean M. Auel
No, my publisher has always done the marketing.
Jean M. Auel
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
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
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
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
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Jean M. Auel
Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.
Jean M. Auel
I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
Jean M. Auel
I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.
Jean M. Auel
I really fell in love with Africa.
Jean M. Auel
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
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
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James Nasmyth
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
Murray Gell Mann
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
Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.
Martin Ryle
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
Brian May
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
Octavia Butler
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.
Frederick Reines
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.
George Phillips Bond
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
Edwin Powell Hubble
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Voltaire
I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
Sally Ride
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
Paracelsus
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra
I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.
Emm Gryner
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star.
Charles Francis Richter
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides