After Quote by Simon Winchester

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in…

— Bill Wyman

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built

— Leon Uris

“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity…

— Anaïs Nin

“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to how you…

— Dawn Goodwin

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great -…

— Erwin Chargaff

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will…

— Richard Bach

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written…

— Blake Bailey

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of…

— Anonymous

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted…

— Brandon Sanderson

It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family.…

— Jonathan Franzen

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.

— Wilson Mizner