In this chapter, I discuss and challenge a traditional assumption about management scholars, namely, that they, above all, are to be seen as development consultants who create knowledge to make organizations more efficient and well-functioning. I do this by approaching research and researchers through a perspective that places writing at the heart of scientific activity. This is a perspective that tends to be neglected, and sometimes even forgotten. That is strange—perhaps even problematic—since writing is an indispensable and central part of all scholarly work. The chapter begins by framing the management researcher, through a more conventional perspective, as a development consultant. Next, I suggest that writing can equally be framed as the central research activity, that the researcher can be seen as a writer—a Homo scribens. From this perspective, I look at three different parts of the research process that relate to methodology, empirical material, and theory. Following this, I reflect upon some political aspects of writing management. In the final section of the paper, I summarize the implications of seeing writing as the central research activity, and the researcher as a writer—a Homo scribens—hoping that this can contribute to more interesting research, well worth reading.