Fashion Quote by Mitali Perkins

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

— Nell Freudenberger

“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

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

— Aaron Koblin

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

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

— Nina Blackwood

If I'm going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

— Glen Duncan

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

— Jessica Hagedorn

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

I collect and read as many books about music and film as I do fiction.

— George Pelecanos

I do quite extensive research for most of my novels.

— Sjon

There's not one thing in particular that influences my music, but I write about what I know. It's based in personal experience. That's not…

— Holly Golightly

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