Harlan Coben
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I mean, so I fight, so I'm the only one I know who says don't, I try to tell people do as little research as possible.
So example, we're in New York.
If I was setting a scene where we were the other day at the New York Public Library, let's say I'm setting a scene there.
There's two ways of handling.
One is someone can go, oh, wait, I can't write it today.
I have to go to the New York Public Library.
I have to hear the echo on those stairs myself.
No, no, no.
You've been there before.
Look at them pictures.
Imagine it.
You have an imagination.
Use your damn imagination.
And then later, go by and change it and move it around.
But don't let it stop you from writing.
I try to live my life this way with this very, very simple credo.
Does it help me produce pages?
Does it not help me produce pages?