Gail Carriger 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.

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

I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

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

I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information.

When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the writing. So I don't have to face a blank piece of paper. I can look at this as a quote that I have from somewhere.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

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

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

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

All the stories in 'The UnAmericans' required interviews, travel, hours and hours in the archives. All of that stuff is so important in the beginning, but I reach a point where I have to shuck it away.

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 tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.

Being one of my sources is exhausting. It's not one interview and you're done. I keep going back until I feel like I understand everything.

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

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

When I talk with my students, I introduce a process of work I call the three R's: First comes research, then real world exploration, and finally, and perhaps most important, a fact-checking review of all that has been written.

I'm a research queen.

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

There is no such thing as writer's block. There is only not enough information. If you can't write, learn something.