It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.
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I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.
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.
I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.
I enjoy working on a series and having a long stretch of time to get to know and connect with my cast and crew. It also gives me the ability to play a character over the span of countless hours of television.
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