Want to be a better writer? Do this.

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"Read, read, read," said author William Faulkner, adding, "Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write."

Evan Maloney agrees.  In his guardian.co.uk http://guardian.co.uk/ article The best advice for writers? Read., he notes, "Reading is essential for writers – it instructs, inspires and offers a blissful escape from the blank page."