Diana Gabaldon, the author of the most awaited series "Outlander" said that her taste for reading started with comics.

The author of the series "Outlander" that is scheduled to be aired starting March or April next year revealed that her love for reading started as early as three when her mother read comics for her. The renowned television author noted that children must be exposed to reading habit as much early as possible, according to Daily Record UK.

"I was always a fairly good writer because of reading so much though I was a scientist in a previous incarnation," said Gabaldon. "I have a Phd in Quantitative Behavioural Ecology and I worked as a Professor for some years. When you do that you write a great deal for academic purposes, text books, articles and all kinds of things; so I had done a great deal of writing," she added.

Gabaldon who was a science woman before trying her hands in creative writing noted that pursuing a career in a creative field wasn't easy for a person like her coming from a conservative family background. She also noted that her father guided her to get good education to her support children after marriage which is why she took up a career in science, reported Franchise Herald.

"I still wanted to write novels and when I was 35, I said to myself, Mozart was dead at 36, so maybe you'd better get started. "Outlander" or "Cross Stitch" as it's been called in the UK, is what I wrote for practice," said Gabaldon.

The 63-year-old author said that once she finished writing "Outlander" her agent sent it to five editors, out of which three of them offered to buy it. She was way too excited since she hadn't expected such a response for her work that too that early in her writing career. She shared excitedly that she was told by her agent to open a bottle champagne when she asked him how to deal with the offers.