Different Quote by 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

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

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

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

— Laura Hillenbrand

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

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

— Frederik Pohl

Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

— Azar Nafisi

How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you have to…

— Mark Kurlansky

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

— Alan Dean Foster

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing…

— Marilynne Robinson