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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story."

"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."

"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."

"I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination."

"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to."


"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."


"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."


"It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think " the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late."


"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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