Answer Quote by Frederik Pohl

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

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

— Nell Freudenberger

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

— Wernher von Braun

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of…

— Terry Pratchett

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 get really into research. I know people say that, but I'm really into research.

— Michael Pitt

Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different…

— David Blackwell

I have never been much of a researcher

— Meg Wolitzer

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

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

— Lisa See

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel…

— Helen Dunmore

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