Read Widely

Don’t just confine yourself to one genre. Read outside your chosen discipline. Be Interdisciplinary. Read as much as you can from all different subjects.

It is the same with trash movies, trash TV. Wrestlemania. The Kardashians. I’m fascinated by it. So I don’t say read Tolstoy and nothing else. Read everything. See everything. The poet must not avert his eyes. — – Werner Herzgog

We also, I say, ought to copy these bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate; then, by applying the supervising care with which our nature has endowed us, – in other words, our natural gifts, – we should so blend those several flavours into one delicious compound that, even though it betrays its origin, yet it nevertheless is clearly a different thing from that whence it came._ —Seneca, Epistle LXXXIV