Joanna Going Quotes

I love doing research.

I don't do research. I never have.

I'm a research queen.

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.

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

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.

Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.

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

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

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.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

I'm not a big believer in doing too much research - I think you can get lost in it. You can get constrained by it, which I think is a mistake. But if you've done your homework, the audience feels it.

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

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.

I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

I despise research. I think it's a crutch.

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

All my knowledge comes from research.

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

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.