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I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it's hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they're thinking.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.

I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.