About Quote by Katherine Paterson

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

— Isabel Allende

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

— Alan Garner

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story.…

— Martin McDonagh

I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

— Sidney Sheldon

It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's…

— Marge Piercy

Every place has a story - or a thousand stories. Findery brings places to life, be they where you stand or where you hope…

— Caterina Fake

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

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

— Alan Dean Foster

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience…

— Michael Pollan

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