Can you be a good writer if you dont read?

“You can’t be a good writer without being a devoted reader.” “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut… If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.”

Do avid readers make good writers?

Here’s what being a diligent reader does for you: It makes you a better writer by teaching you what’s most effective in terms of building sentences, developing a structure and creating metaphors. For fiction writers, it teaches successful ways to build plot and develop characters.

What is writers no one reads?

With that question in mind, Will Schofield, the man behind the treasure trove that is 50 Watts, started Writers No One Reads, an unexpectedly popular tumblr “highlighting forgotten, neglected, abandoned, forsaken, unrecognized, unacknowledged, overshadowed, out-of-fashion, under-translated writers.”

Who wrote the world’s shortest story?

The Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso is the author of one of the world’s shortest stories, presented to you here in full [spoiler alert!]: “When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.”

Will anyone read your book?

No one will read your book. This isn’t an insult. It’s a statistical fact. For an example that’s depressing on many levels, take Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s Killing Patton, which according to Nielsen was the only adult book (in English) to sell more than one million copies last year.

Who was the last universal writer?

Gracq, a pseudonym for Louis Poirier, has been called the “last of the universal writers.” A geography teacher by trade but a writer with a capital W who refused awards—including the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1951 for Le Rivage des Syrtes (The Opposing Shore)—Gracq never traveled on promotional tours and rarely gave interviews.