Happens Quote by Isabel Allende

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

— Katherine Paterson

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

— Alan Garner

My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.

— Laurie Graham

The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go…

— Neal Stephenson

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

When I'm sure I have a story, I call my collaborators and we begin to discuss it. And we conduct studies of certain subjects…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

— Diane Sawyer

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

— Judy Blume

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

— Jeffery Deaver

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

— Alan Dean Foster

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real…

— John Darnielle