Develop Your Personal Writer’s Library
Develop Your Personal Writer’s Library
The phrase “Good readers are good writers” is most closely associated with Vladimir Nabokov.
In his influential essay, Good Readers and Good Writers, Nabokov explores the profound
connection between attentive, imaginative reading and the craft of writing.
- Good literature feeds our minds, broadens our perspectives, stimulates our imagination, and strengthens and helps expand our creativity.
- Books that explain how to improve our writing skills can also nourish our minds, broaden our perspectives, and help us develop as writers.
- For writers who want to improve their craft, reading is a necessary part of their lives, and by acquiring good books over time, their library will develop into a strong resource.
- The foundation of our approach and writing structure is often based on the knowledge we’ve acquired from reading, whether for pleasure or to hone our craft.
- Reading authors we admire or whose work inspires our writing forms the blocks used to build the foundation for the stories we write in some manner or other.
- Daily and weekly schedules for reading may be helpful and work for some, but I struggle with trying to read at the same time every day. For me, the discipline of habit means I will follow through on reading at some point during the day or evening, not because it’s on the schedule, but because I look forward to a spontaneous reading break, which can be just as effective for maintaining consistency without rigid timing.
- No time to sit and read? Audio books were created just for you. Audio books are a convenient solution for writers who struggle to find time ( or patience) to sit and read.
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