John Cotton Dana’s 12 Rules for Reading

nevver:

   1. Read
   2. Read.
   3. Read some more.
   4. Read anything.
   5. Read about everything.
   6. Read enjoyable things.
   7. Read things you yourself enjoy.
   8. Read, and talk about it.
   9. Read very carefully, some things.
   10. Read on the run, most things.
   11. Don’t think about reading, but
   12. Just read.
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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
— Annie Proulx, Interview in The Paris Review, Issue 188.