The Need to Read

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Reading helps you learn and also teaches you how to write well. Writing is important because it helps you think deeply and discover new ideas. To think and write well, you need to be good at reading and understanding good writing.

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writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them.

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A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of discovery.

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You can’t think well without writing well, and you can’t write well without reading well. And I mean that last “well” in both senses. You have to be good at reading, and read good things.

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