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“Read, read, read. 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 ma
by letmevoteplease 1mo ago
“Read, read, read. 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. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.” - Faulkner
- wyclif 1mo agoYeah, I'm familiar with that quote but as great of a writer as he was, I don't think Faulkner was right about this. To extend his carpentry analogy, if all you read is pulp then you are going to become a pulp producer as a writer.