Quotes About Research

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminate all of the perpetually open tabs and multiple bookmarking services. It's also all automatically backed up to Evernote, which gives me peace of mind.

It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.

In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites out of that were James M. Cain, Dassiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene and Patricia Highsmith.

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

If I had kids, I'd probably be way over-protective, researching everything they begged to see to make sure the content was appropriate.

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

I don't think, as a journalist, I'd ever get a story written. I'd probably spend five years researching it, and by the time I'd finish it, no one would be interested in it anymore.

As with anything we do as entrepreneurs, researching how our businesses impact and influence our customers and our markets - and our world - is critical to building something of value as a business.

I was introduced to the world of modern food production in the mid-1990s, while researching an article about California's strawberry industry for the 'Atlantic Monthly.'

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!

When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the Gremlin Special's passengers and crew.