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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
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
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
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 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
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
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.
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
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
— Sara Sheridan
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
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
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
Good" now is better than "Best" never.
— Phillip Gary Smith
