Built Quote by Neal Stephenson

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

I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just…

— John Boyne

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

I find research fascinating and always conduct some before I begin writing, and then fill in the rest as needed. I read stacks of…

— Julie Klassen

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as…

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Isabel Allende

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

— Laura Hillenbrand

The research is the most interesting part… That’s how I work. I go some place and I walk it and I talk to people…

— Martin Cruz Smith

Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But…

— Jim Shepard

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem…

— Raymond Buckland