Enjoy Quote by Raymond Buckland

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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 love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

— Ken Follett

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you…

— Dorothea Brande

The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go…

— Neal Stephenson

I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece…

— Paul Haggis

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

— Jon Ronson

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to…

— Octavia E. Butler