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One of the tenets in my “Jumpstart Your Writing” workbook (which you should download here! If you like free things and advice about writing) is that if you want to be a writer, you have to read. Read all the time, read as much as you can. 

Austin Kleon is a brilliant thinker and curator of cool stuff; a few years ago he talked about this balance between input and output. He quoted writer Ted Gioia who said, in part: