Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and riots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palanquin and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.

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