#researching

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#begin #eight #i #months #novel

In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from. ↗

— John Hawkes

#begin #between #character #does #first

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. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#else #enough #going #i #library

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anybody #bored #day #few #get

I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#book #eight #i #months #outlining

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#coming #creating #ideas #only #outlining

Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them. ↗

— Lisa See

#did #doing #done #family #finding

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#doing #none #outlining #people #planning

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. ↗

— Richard Hatch

#buying #colors #designs #dollars #feel

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#begin #book #during #emerge #even