I was a university professor and all of my degrees were in the biological sciences, so I did know my way around a library. That’s why I decided on historical fiction. It seems easier to look things up than to make them up. If it turned out I had no imagination, I could steal things from the historical record!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I was a university professor and all of my degrees were in the biological sciences, so I did know my way around a library. That’s why I decided on historical fiction. It seems easier to look things up than to make them up. If it turned out I had no imagination, I could steal things from the historical record!" in the context of "On how library research helps her write accurately in “Caught Between Two Worlds – Diana Gabaldon Interview” in The Scots Magazine (2018 Mar 2)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.