I completely agree with your thoughts on the critical nature for writers and poets of the connection between reading and writing. I am sure, as you write, much of the influence is unconscious but with experience and maturity the reader can appreciate language and the styles in which it is used.
I was encouraged from a very young age to love stories being read to me which spurred me on to be able to read on my own. I have fortunately never lost my love of reading and now have far too many books!!
This is how I have always felt. Since childhood, I wanted to be a writer because I was a reader - or maybe the other way round. The two are so interconnected that I could not separate them. Even in my academic writing when I discuss other people's fiction, I feel I am creating something new and different - not parasitizing on others' creativity but using it as an impetus for my own.
Yes, yes, yes!! It is always a matter of respect for the writers who came before us, and an offering to them. That's the way I see it. Thank you for your feedback, Elana.
I completely agree with your thoughts on the critical nature for writers and poets of the connection between reading and writing. I am sure, as you write, much of the influence is unconscious but with experience and maturity the reader can appreciate language and the styles in which it is used.
I was encouraged from a very young age to love stories being read to me which spurred me on to be able to read on my own. I have fortunately never lost my love of reading and now have far too many books!!
Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks to you, Charlie!! I appreciate your feedback.
Your writing is very rewarding. Thank you.
This is how I have always felt. Since childhood, I wanted to be a writer because I was a reader - or maybe the other way round. The two are so interconnected that I could not separate them. Even in my academic writing when I discuss other people's fiction, I feel I am creating something new and different - not parasitizing on others' creativity but using it as an impetus for my own.
Yes, yes, yes!! It is always a matter of respect for the writers who came before us, and an offering to them. That's the way I see it. Thank you for your feedback, Elana.