Book Quote by Leon Uris

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

— Leon Uris

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going…

— Leon Uris

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

— Charles Bock

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

— Nikki Giovanni

When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away…

— Daniel Kehlmann

I go to a library. There are lakhs of books; all of them are very valuable and highly informative. Now what should I do?…

— T Joseph Benziger

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

— David McCullough

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in…

— Bill Wyman

You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's just not…

— James Murray

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you…

— Lynn Coady

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

What I'm doing is exploring things. This is why I'm a fiction writer rather than an essayist or a politician or whatever. I just…

— T.C. Boyle