Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but theyre also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you dont. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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