Goodreads asked Thaisa Frank:

How do you get inspired to write?

Thaisa Frank Again, I don't "get" : ) It's not something I can buy at a store or meditate on. These things come to me from my imagination and the imagination has an interesting way of intersecting with the world. For e.g, in my book Heidegger's Glasses (not an historical novel, by the way), I could see people in an underground mine answering letters. I had no idea that there was a way to make sense of this in terms of what the Reich was doing. Things began to fit together like a puzzle. Whatever "research" I needed to do, I did after I wrote the book, and sometimes during.

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