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Novelists can be lazy because we simply make up stuff. Nonfiction is brutal because the research has to be meticulous. You can’t afford to make mistakes.
As a reader who enjoys history, I've never thought of how much time goes into research for a book.
“The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.” —Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776), American political activist at the time of the Revolutionary War.”
― Fate of the Union
― Fate of the Union
“Novelists can be lazy because we simply make up stuff. Nonfiction is brutal because the research has to be meticulous. You can’t afford to make mistakes.”
― Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
― Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
“The American people are unique in that their considerable political passion is expressed at the ballot box, not through violence directed at their leaders, whom they can vote out of office.”
― Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
― Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
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