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I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

— Antony Beevor

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✓Similar Perspectives

We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.

— Hasan M. Elahi

I like historical things; I like researching things.

— Graham Moore

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives.

— Chris Benz

Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

— Kate Williams

I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.

— Rachel Kushner

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.

— Annie Leibovitz

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine.

— Robin Li

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

— Franklin Pierce Adams

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

— Colm Meaney

✗Opposing Perspectives

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

— Amy Bloom