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I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

When I started out as a novelist, I thought I was going to be a private-eye writer. That was my intent, and that's what I studied, I mean, scholarly.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

I am addicted to research, let's say.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.