Language mastery is only a small part of the overall process. You can be fluent in Spanish, but until you've read a lot of Spanish literature and written a lot

Language mastery is only a small part of the overall process. You can be fluent in Spanish, but until you've read a lot of Spanish literature and written a lot of questionable quality Spanish prose yourself, you won't be writing any great literary works. Studying the writing of others--particularly the great masters--is one short path to developing that. How much code do you read on a daily basis? A lot of programmers spend time writing a lot of code, but not many spend time reading code: especially really well-written code, or code that solves a problem really elegantly. But, yeah, I think you get the idea...