Deep Reading Can Make You a Better Writer

How to be a better deep reader

Christine Seifert, PhD
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readMar 11, 2020

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Writing takes a lot of time and energy — both of which are in short supply for most of us. It can be tempting to spend all your limited time on writing and forget about reading.

But the hard truth is that the more you read, the better you’ll write. Stephen King has famously argued that writers who don’t make time to…

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