Behinds Quote by Michael Scott

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

— Sjon

I love doing the research for the novels. For me, the writing is hard work.

— Clive Cussler

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

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

— Alan Dean Foster

For 'The Bestseller'... there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it…

— Ravi Subramanian

I think reading the novels definitely was a good source for me to study from.

— Laura Vandervoort

My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology. However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is…

— Michael Scott

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with…

— Jane Cleland

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

From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that. So it…

— Lloyd Alexander

What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story…

— Jean Houston