Goodreads asked Richard Brown:

How do you get inspired to write?

Richard Brown I had written from my early years contributing to a book on local history when in primary school...I say contribute...I wrote a couple of paragraphs. From then on I'd caught the bug but it was not until I started teaching that I began writing in earnest. First I wrote book reviews, something I've done ever since. Then came a request for an article on computing and history in 1976 and from a comment in that paper about the need for a series of books on documents, an approach from Macmillan to write for a Documents and Debates, a new series. The first book was published in 1980 and since then I've written over thirty books and fifty articles on history, education and politics. It's less a case of being inspired to write as enjoying writing.

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