Academic Quote by Emma Donoghue

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean,…

— Helen Garner

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing…

— Marilynne Robinson

How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you have to…

— Mark Kurlansky

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

— Erica Jong

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

— Nell Freudenberger

Fiction has always been a thorn in my side, because I've always wanted to be a writer but I can't seem to really do…

— Sufjan Stevens

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world…

— Temple Grandin

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

— Nikki Giovanni

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research…

— Caroline Kennedy

I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do.

— Ridley Scott

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

— Javed Jaffrey