Lee Gutkind Quotes

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

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

Reading taught me how to write.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

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

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

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.

All my knowledge comes from research.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

You could look it up.

Information is bad for knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

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.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

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