Writers Need to Read

In the same way that visual artists need to be immersed in images, writers need to read and Read Widely.

Read in your subject matter to see what everyone else is doing and where the gaps are.

Read actively, Make Marginalia as you go. Reading is a conversation between the reader and the author.

Steal to Create what techniques you can.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison