Chris Claremont Quotes

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

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.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

The value of a good education has never left me.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Always educate yourself.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

When I was little, I thought everyone in the world liked to read because it was so fun. But then I realised that was not exactly true. I want other kids to read and write more all over the world, because it helps them to understand things better.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.