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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
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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."
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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
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