Warren Buffett Quotes

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.

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

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

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

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

Read every book, blog, website, whatever, about what you want to be an expert in.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries raised me.

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

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.

You never know what you're going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

Ideas come from everything

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something that I didn't know before. That's the glory of writing. It's not even so much the writing, it's what you learn - especially history - because so much of it is research.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.