Action Quote by Sara Paretsky

I'm a journalist, not an advocate, so I approached researching and writing the book the same way that I do any other reporting. But…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

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

— Laura Hillenbrand

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

I can't write a novel without first really doing reporting. I don't even call it research; it's reporting. That process is very important to…

— Lorraine Adams

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

— Eric Kripke

Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's…

— Italo Calvino

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate…

— Abi Morgan

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

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity…

— Linus Roache

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need to write,…

— Anonymous

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready…

— E. L. Doctorow