Goodreads asked Patricia Bernstein:

How do you get inspired to write?

Patricia Bernstein Good question. I always tell budding writers to be careful what topic you choose. You better LOVE it, because you will be living with it for a very long time. My first book, a collection of first-person accounts of childbirth from the 1890s to the 1990s, was inspired by my own experience having children 18 years apart. The second was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. The third by one line I read in a history book about a 29-year old Texas district attorney who won the first serious convictions of Klansmen in the 1920s. For the fourth, see below.

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