Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.
Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.
I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.
I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.