I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
The words of truth are simple.
Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.