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When you do enough research, the story almost writes itself. Lines of development spring loose and you'll have choices galore. — Robert McKee

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. — Edward M. Lerner

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. — Samuel Johnson

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. — Richard Flanagan

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities. — Sara Sheridan

Everything is research. — Court Ellyn

I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know. — Sarah Dessen

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble. — Sara Sheridan

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write. — Avi Lewis

Day dreaming is actually research for the next book. — Val Richards

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic. — Raymond Buckland

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research. — Sophy Burnham

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. — Chris Cleave

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free. — A.S. Byatt

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American. — Bill Bryson

I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come. — Ann Rule

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing. — Tracie Peterson

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. — A.S. Byatt

I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period. — Susan Holloway Scott

I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week. — Karina Longworth

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book. — Bill Bryson

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research. — L. Ron Hubbard

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. — Ken Follett

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter. — Sara Sheridan

All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research. — Rupert Sheldrake

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research. — Sara Sheridan

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Research is so vital to a great story. Know what you're writing about! — Beem Weeks

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing. — Michelle Paver

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting. — Michael Scott

Ideas are cheap -- making something of them is difficult — Anne Sigismund Huff

Interviews, research, more interviews, fact-checking, writing, rewriting - and then, in an instant, it is over, — Hanya Yanagihara

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with. — James Surowiecki

A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel. — Michael Scott

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. — C.J. Box

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan

Research is a wonderful word for writers. It serves as excuse for EVERYTHING — Rayne Hall

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help. — Sara Sheridan

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing? — Chris Abani

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. — Arthur Rimbaud

Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive. — Sara Sheridan

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. — Leon Uris

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days. — Julie Wright

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views. — Barry Ritholtz

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. — Zora Neale Hurston

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop. — Sara Sheridan

History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone. — Sara Sheridan

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events. — Sara Sheridan

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

My writing process is a mix of research, personal experiences, washing the dishes, raising kids while thinking - then writing. — Jean Craighead George

Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. — Joan Didion

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it. — Ruby Bentall

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing. — Anthony Marra

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. — Isabel Allende

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before. — Tad Williams

Good" now is better than "Best" never. — Phillip Gary Smith

Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name — Claude C. Hopkins