When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
I read what I write over and over and make corrections and improvements, until I reach the conclusion that the material deserves to stand on its own.