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“I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.”

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Author:Amy Waldman

“I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories.”

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Author:Ben Mezrich

“To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.”

Writing Research

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.”

Writing Sometimes Done Enough Research Block Signals Writer's Block

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

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Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

“I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.”

Writing Enjoy Periods Research Nerd Time Periods

Author:Susan Holloway Scott

“So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'”

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Author:Simon Winchester

“I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.”

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Author:Simon Winchester

“I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.”

Writing Literature Fields Research Accused Anthropology

Author:Clifford Geertz

“The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.”

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Author:Roland Barthes