Terry Pratchett Quotes

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

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.

Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

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

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

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've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

You write about what you know, and you write about what you want to know.

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.

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

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

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

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

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

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

Reading is No. 1 - I have to read, or I can't write.

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

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

The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.