Anita Diament Quotes

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

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.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

I did a lot of background and research on 'End Of Watch,' and I definitely used certain skills that I learned.

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.

I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in.

All analysts spend half their time hunting through the literature for inequalities which they want to use and cannot prove.

That's why we have journalists, for stats.