Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.

I definitely am the sort of person that likes to be constantly learning things.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.

At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Conversion brings a drive to learn.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.

I'm interested in doing anything that teaches me something.

My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.