Simon Sebag Montefiore - Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing no...

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Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the Great or Jerusalem, I spend endless hours doing vast amounts of research. But it ends up being based on the same principle as all writing about people: and that is curiosity!

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Das Schreiben von Fiktionen unterscheidet sich sehr von dem Schreiben von Sachbüchern. Ich schreibe gerne Romane, aber für Geschichtsbücher, wie meine Biografien von Stalin, Katharina der Großen oder Jerusalem, verbringe ich endlose Stunden damit, unermesslich viel zu recherchieren. Aber es basiert auf dem gleichen Prinzip wie bei allen, die über Menschen schreiben: und das ist Neugier!

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