Goodreads asked Benjamin Radford:

How do you get inspired to write?

Benjamin Radford I primarily write non-fiction (though check out my political satire novel "The Merchant of Dust") and I have a broad and diverse range of interests, from folklore to mystery, science to skepticism. It's probably fair to say that there's very few things I'm entirely uninterested in, which actually creates a problem for me when I read the newspaper (yeah, I come from a family of journalists, and I'm old school) because there's always something interesting to read or clip out. So I have filing cabinets full of clippings and ideas to inspire me, whether bits and pieces for a book idea I have, or elements to a character for a novel.

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