Get in the habit of vetting your research as you go - particularly research conducted online. Verify facts from multiple reputable sources before you record them.

Next quotes

• Gayle Lynds:

  Be wary of cutting and pasting research nuggets directly into your manuscript.

• Gayle Lynds:

  I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of t

• Gayle Lynds:

  Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

• Gayle Lynds:

  In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy

• Gayle Lynds:

  Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignor

• Gayle Lynds:

  Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just

• Gayle Lynds:

  If you're not in the hands of an expert editor, you really can go wrong in a lot of different ways.

• Gayle Lynds:

  If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a

• Gayle Lynds:

  Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

• Gayle Lynds:

  The villain drives the plot.