The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should…

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to…

— Octavia Butler

When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone…

— Roland Smith

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

— Jon Krakauer

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

— Joel Chandler Harris

“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it doesn't fall…

— Ronald P. Chavez

You can only really write about what you know about.

— John Singleton

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

— Taylor Momsen

Write about what you know, that's what I say.

— Josh Widdicombe

Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for…

— Michael Scott

It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now…

— Sarah Kay

“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.”

— Paul H Tubb