Amount Quote by Lucy Corin

Just because I try to read a lot of stuff doesn't mean I can fully conceptualize all of these intense, big, abstract ideas.

— James Ransone

“Interest in academic system-building is dead; however, greater are the efforts by which every educated person seeks to draw the guiding strand of his…

— Ivan Kireyevsky

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study…

— Richard P. Feynman

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought…

— Michael Rosen

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

— Gene Luen Yang

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research.

— Douglass North

My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look…

— Luc Sante

When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific…

— Brandon Sanderson

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

— Eric Kripke

I talk about folding it in often with Althea, my girlfriend. She's getting her doctoral degree at Berkeley and she talks about how even…

— Paul Beatty

It's very rare that I ever go and research a particular subject. Mostly I do serendipitous research, I read stuff, things spinning out of…

— Terry Pratchett

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

— Jon Krakauer