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“If my setting is new to a reader, or the concerns of the novel are new, I hope they will learn something about the world. I would like to say that they can trust that what they do learn in the novel will be accurate, because I pay a lot of attention to facts. I do a lot of research to make sure that I'm not giving them, you know, blue moons of Jupiter. It's not science fiction.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Facts Pay Attention Fiction Novel Reader Moon Research Concern Blue Science Fiction Setting Settings Accurate Jupiter Blue Moon

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.”

People World May Ends Helping Remember Millions This World Research Scientist Species Population Just One Help Me Biology End Of The World

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.”

Knows Shows Opportunity Social Lines Novel Tvs Research Workers Host Reporters Social Worker Talk Shows Columnists

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Research, research, research. It means everything.”

Mean Research

Book:Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

Source: Lou Reed: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations

“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.”

People Humans Able Wanted Culture Human Beings Groups Months Six Jokes Research Structure Atmosphere Dirty Six Months Dirty Jokes

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.”

Thinking Knows Writing Fiction Research Historical Lazy Historical Fiction

Author:Sarah Dessen

“Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.”

People Ifs Knows Writing I Can Order Sex Interest Support Groups Research Phones Illness Topics Forums Support Groups

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I didn’t like it [computer] when I first began using it. Where it’s helped me a lot is in nonfiction which is a kind of different process. You’ve got research, you’ve got your notes, You can block out what you want to work on for the next 10 pages and put it in another file, and then you can kind of carve it into shape”

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Author:Joan Didion

“A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation”

Children Problem Young Social Information Type Research Young Children Evaluation Efficacy Self Efficacy

Book:Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.”

People World Needs Stills Book Character Strong Differences Pay Attention Moral Internet Research Meaningful Magazines Pay Attention Contribution Our World Moral Character

Author:Zig Ziglar

“It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.”

Knows Needs Giving Trying Persons Loses Lines Attention Reader Six Research Tools Journalism Journalist Interviews

Author:Isabel Allende

“I believe that, by taking an extreme approach, you really get the public to actively engage with a cause or a research ,and that is what motivates me with space exploration.”

Believe I Believe Causes Space Approach Research Extremes Exploration Space Exploration

Author:Nelly Ben Hayoun

“Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.”

“I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.”

Ideas Kings Periods Conflict Happenings Research Rebellion Territory Wales Being Authentic

Author:Kurt Sutter

“I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.”

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Author:Raymond Buckland

“You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.”

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Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I love the creative process of the research, development, but I love also when it comes to reality, it has to be an experience. I don't care if it is an experience while you are trying something on, whether you are in a physical place, or whether you are online kind of playing, I love that you can create stories and atmospheres wherever you are.”

Ifs Trying Kind Stories Reality Care Process Creative Development Research Don't Care Atmosphere I Don't Care Online Creative Process Wherever You Are Trying Something

Author:Christopher Bailey

“I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They project an image of a woman that is completely absurd, but girls and women believe they should be very skinny. They don't look like real woman anymore.”

Way Should Believe Looks Real Girl Found Media Fashion Projects Research Blame Absurd Magazines Skinny Anorexia Real Women Fashion Magazines

Author:Oliviero Toscani

“If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research.”

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Author:Andrew Saul

“I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!”

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Author:Mary Alice Monroe

“I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?”

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Author:Emily Haines

“Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.”

Knows Courses Know How Research Remains Scientific Research

Author:Mario Bunge

“I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.”

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Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Leaders being born vs. made is a bit of a separate issue. The research on this issue is fairly conclusive: 50/50. We have innate predispositions that affect who we are and what we do (nature) but we can learn and develop and grow (nurture).”

Made Grows Bits Born Leader Issues Research Who We Are Nurture Innate

Author:Dave Ulrich

“There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.”

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Author:Dave Ulrich

“I see top business schools working to bridge this gap [between academic research and business application] by respecting executive education, by having more mature students who proactively draw from faculty what they know they need, and by having faculty who are willing to leave their ivory towers for the murky world of business reality. Unfortunately, at other times, business professors have little or not interest or savvy about business issues.”

“When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.”

People Trying Looks May Ideas Country Bigs Asks House Color Research Sponges

Author:Jan Brett

“The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.”

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Author:Jan Brett

“I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.”

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Author:Franny Armstrong

“Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.”

Energy Causes Brain Amount Balance Research Negative Ill Mood Chemicals Swings Dip Small Amounts Processed Food Mood Swing

Author:Marilu Henner

“I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?”

“I love genealogical research. That's the reason I bought my first computer years ago to put my genealogy records on the computer. I've always enjoyed tracing family history.”

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Author:Nola Ochs

“The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones.”

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Author:Theo Paphitis

“I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Has Beens Country Able Culture Asks Research Areas Worried Elsewhere Other Cultures

Author:Uwem Akpan

“For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.”

Trying Children Littles Said Character Stories Imagination Environment Happened Events Research Relate My Imagination

Author:Uwem Akpan

“External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.”

Desire Depends Industry Needed Projects Solutions Research Size Determined Dependent Clients Requirements Payment

Author:Jeff Fisher

“As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.”

Religious Research Priests Scientific Research Enriching Enriching Experience

Author:George Coyne

“There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.”

People Reason Views Research Scientific Research

Author:George Coyne

“The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.”

Problem Earth Names Research Atmosphere Bombs Atoms Technological Alienation Scientific Research Overflow Irresponsibility Atom Bomb Ozone

Author:George Coyne

“People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.”

People Sometimes Names Issues Pure Research Deserve Technological Scientific Research

Author:George Coyne

“Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.”

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Author:George Coyne

“My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.”

Ifs Knows World Should Writing Mean Character Helping Stories Body Political Deals Break Economy Elements Research Function Breaking Down Starving Main Characters

Author:Leigh Bardugo

“Research performed on animals is, by definition, scientifically unsound.”

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Author:Moby

“One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.”

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Author:Tony Kushner

“The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.”

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Author:John Hodgman

“I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Stories Teach Reader Approach Research Educational Enterprise

Author:Susan Orlean

“I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.”

Writing Pieces Research Hardest Delay Hardest Times

Author:James Surowiecki

“I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.”

Thinking Writing Facts Use Possibility Approach Research Checks Distraction Comforting

Author:James Surowiecki

“The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something different and you get to do research.”

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Author:Julianne Hough

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