Doe Quote by Jim Shepard

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

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

Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a…

— Michelle Dean

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

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

— Quiara Alegria Hudes

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

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

— Laura Hillenbrand

You have to be a ruthless editor of your own prose. Over the years, I've learned that the best way to incorporate research into…

— Sara Paretsky

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

I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Nell Freudenberger

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