## Metadata - Author: [[Matt Hampton]] - Full Title: I’m Tired of Writers Who Don’t Read - Category: #articles - URL: https://medium.com/p/fa882d4d3c5f ## Highlights - Writers who don’t read are essentially chefs who don’t eat. - No, all of those newly minted stoics pounding down books are doing little more than quoting favorite passages. Internally the philosophy has no benefits for them. They’ve never really thought about it. (Which is a key point of philosophy.) They don’t want to be stoics. There’s no investment in it for them. They want to appear as stoics and get the credit for it. For these folks, stoic is a job title, nothing more. - Reading takes time. Honing craft takes time. Experimenting and developing your bag of tricks and style…yes, it takes time. Honestly, you have to write a lot of crap to get to a place where most people want to give your stuff a look. And even after you hit that point, you will still write some crap. It’s going to happen. But the only way you learn to write is to dive into the work of other writers.