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.
More Quotes by Jean M. Auel
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.