When I talk with people, I don't even see what they are wearing. . . No, I recognize it if it's something particularly nice and interesting. I see the exception.
I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to write about Margaret Cavendish. It took me a long time to realize that I just wanted to write a book about her. Years.