The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
Quiara Alegria Hudes
Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.
John Hull
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any... →
Evan Hunter
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston
I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
Malcolm McDowell
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do... →
Danica McKellar
I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was... →
Laura Mennell
The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.
Natalie Merchant