Pete Hamill Quotes

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

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.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

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

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

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

You always need to be curious and study.

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

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

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

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

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.