Goodreads asked Lawrence T. Friedhoff:

How do you get inspired to write?

Lawrence T. Friedhoff My main job is getting drugs approved by FDA and other international regulatory bodies. I've been pretty good at it and so every day millions of people take drugs I helped to get approved.

A lot of getting a drug approved is writing up scientific results of one kind or another. It's a special skill that requires taking complicated results and organizing them so that they are easily understandable to the various regulators. Regulators are quite strict and so one has to be scrupulously honest and forthright.

So, this "day job" was good preparation for other kinds of writing, like my two books.

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