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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."
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"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."
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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing."
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"Times have changed in research and if you are not using Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Wikipedia, Google, and the like, you will be left in the dark."
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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."
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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."
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"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."
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"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."
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"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
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"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
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"When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'"
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"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
Woman
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
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"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
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"My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era."
War
"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
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"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
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"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years."
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