https://mtoddgallowglas.com/on-my-bookshelf/ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:16:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://mtoddgallowglas.com/on-my-bookshelf/#comment-4 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:16:42 +0000 http://www.mtoddgallowglas.com/2011/04/16/on-my-bookshelf/#comment-4 I actually think Stephen King said it best, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: Read a lot and write a lot. Then do it again.”

]]> https://mtoddgallowglas.com/on-my-bookshelf/#comment-3 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 18:07:50 +0000 http://www.mtoddgallowglas.com/2011/04/16/on-my-bookshelf/#comment-3 I have always found the best way to really learn about writing is to read, not just style guides, although those are a very helpful tool, and not just authors you admire, but as much stuff as you can get your hands on. I have found some of the most helpful and stylistic advice from Hemingway, a writer I have been know to rant about more than once. Don’t get me wrong, I have quite a few writer’s reference books myself, many of the one’s posted here, but I think, to quote Joan Didion, “The best way to be a writer is to be a reader.”

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