Wide reading is important. You dont have to like it, but its important to grapple with things you dont understand. Ive been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I dont want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. Youre not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I dont read for an hour a day, I get ill.
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