David Puttnam Quotes

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

One of the first things we should teach every student is not to believe everything they read and hear.

I think the most important thing that young people should be taught at school is how they can decide what they're being told is true.

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.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

The child has no way of knowing what's good information.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I always recommend navigating the landscape and understanding where it's coming from, so don't get your media from just one source; get it from a variety of different sources but understand the bias and the source.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

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

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.

I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know, the second, is to find out who will tell you.

Don't believe everything you read.

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.