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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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"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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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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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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"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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"I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research."
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"No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers."
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"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
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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 allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good."
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"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
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"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
Past
"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
Mind
"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
Time
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
Home
"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."
Home
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."
Opinion
"It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow."
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"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."
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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
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"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."
World
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