Fantasy Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places,…

— Jackie Collins

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

— Nell Freudenberger

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

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

“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual details bringing…

— Christopher Beha

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy…

— Sarah Zettel

That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really long-term, imaginative,…

— Jonathan Dee

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

— Steven Moffat

I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other reporting. But…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period…

— Sarah Waters

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner

Writing fiction is very different to writing non-fiction. I love writing novels, but on history books, like my biographies of Stalin or Catherine the…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore