What Should Writers Really Read?
Famous authors tell you read if you want to write, but read what?
“You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.”-Ray Bradbury
Bradbury and other famous writers pound the table shouting you cannot become a writer if you do not read… but read what? Where does the new writer begin? What should he or she read and why?
Reading with the intent to write is a guided process you must set in motion for yourself as a new writer. Most of us who write love to read, but our time is often a limit in life and no new writer struggling to find his way wants to waste a single second of such a precious asset.
How do we maximize our reading time to keep the enjoyment of sitting quietly with a book on a Sunday afternoon sipping a glass of nice wine, yet let this book also open our minds to becoming the writer we want to be someday?
Here are a few suggestions that might help your reading become more meaningful to your writing career.
