The best advice I've heard came from an interview with William Faulkner. "Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out." (William Faulkner, interviewed by Lavon Rascoe for The Western Review, Summer 1951)
"Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out."
(William Faulkner, interviewed by Lavon Rascoe for The Western Review, Summer 1951)