One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.
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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
I've summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it's become rather second nature.
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
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 spend a lot of time reading.
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
I have a huge passion for literature.
I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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