122 Quotes by 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.

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

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

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.

Mog-ur has been spending all day and half the night in the place of the spirits. It must be a ceremony. While Ayla was gone, he wouldn’t go near it; now he hardly ever comes out. When he does, he’s so absentminded he forgets to eat. Sometimes he forgets to eat while he’s eating.

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.

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.

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.