"I love research. People have different tolerances for tedious research. I happen to have a very high one . . . If I’m in the very early stages of a book, it’s a lot of research and taking notes. I research until the point where I can start writing, and then I keep researching . . . I’m on my sixth book. They’re all different stories, but they’re all set in the 19th century. There are things that overlap, so it’s less of an uphill climb now. I have a head start."
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!"
Shakespeare, King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii
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