Approach Quote by Laurie Graham

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

— Isabel Allende

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

— Alan Dean Foster

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

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time…

— Antony Beevor

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 begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and…

— Ruth E. Carter

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most…

— Jonathan Kellerman

I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter about the…

— Patricia MacLachlan

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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 spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

— Jeffery Deaver

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.

— David McCullough