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I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading. -- Scott Ellis
As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing. -- Ken Follett
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects. -- Edward M. Lerner
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story. -- Laurie Graham
Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background. -- Michael Hirst
I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading. -- Natasha Trethewey
Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something. -- Jay Chiat
Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading. -- Georgina Chapman
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain. -- Scott Westerfeld
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research. -- Patricia Briggs
If you write any kind of fiction about America, you immediately have to start doing some research about guns, so in some ways, 'Gun Machine' is just the culmination of 20 years of reading about guns. -- Warren Ellis
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them. -- Wayne Dyer
I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat. -- Sarah Waters
When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I sit up dutifully, mindful of ergonomics and suchlike concepts. When reading for pleasure, I take advantage of the 'recline' in recliner. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. -- Kevin J. Anderson
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs. -- Mary Roach
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new! -- Rick Riordan
I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again. -- Chester Brown
If you are not highly educated, you will need to abandon your anxiety and fear of reading and doing research. -- Andrew Saul
Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand. -- Archibald Marwizi
I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research. -- Kieran Bew

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