Top 1200 Research And Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

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

Anybody can do research. The plotting of the novel, writing the ending before you write anything else, which I always do - I don't know that everybody can do that. That's the hard part.

When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research project. Payment of 32 dollars is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them.

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.

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.

People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

One day the world will look upon research upon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.

I don't know if I ever would have developed into a good actor, but that got completely scotched when I lost my vocal cord at 14 in the operation. But writing always - writing plays, writing, writing, writing, that was what I wanted to do.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

Fancy Bear actually went after opposition research and, specifically, research related to the Trump candidacy.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

I had to do the academic writing. At a top research university, publishing of a certain kind is very important. So your friend is right. You can't do three things well.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

At the undergraduate level, SNU has a unique 'Opportunities for Undergraduate Research' programme. Students are encouraged to undertake research programmes at the undergraduate level and get trained in the interdisciplinary research.

Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.

Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

The notion of a writer sitting in a library doing research isn't what I want. The research I love doing isn't found in a book. It's what it feels like to rappel down the side of a building; to train with a SWAT team; to hold a human brain in your hands; or to dive for pirate treasure. Those are things I've done to research my stories.

I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most of my time writing - in thought.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

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.

People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.

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

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.

It's interesting - an actor's research is different to just historian's research. I'm looking for things that I can actually physically use in the movie.

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

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

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.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.

Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.

There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Research, research, research. It means everything.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.

The majority of the research I do is archaeological research, but to me, as a professor, the most important thing is to encourage and mentor students.

Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.