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I try to do as little as possible without looking like an idiot. Research is fun and easy. Writing is hard. So I try…

— Zachary Lazar

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

— Andrea Hirata

I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I…

— Christopher Nolan

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

— E. L. Doctorow

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

— C. J. Box

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time…

— James Surowiecki

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…

— A. S. Byatt

Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To…

— Jaume Cabre

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what…

— Charles Kettering

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of…

— Burt Rutan