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Originally Posted by Anna Drake
I swear I read a post in a forum someplace, (not here) where the person said they didn't enjoy reading, but they'd really like to write a novel. So tell me, could Mr. King have gotten it wrong?
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I wonder if the key there is the future tense, they only think they'd like to write one. They may have a different opinion when they actually sit down to it. Writing a novel a thing of imagination and of words, and (I believe) you have to be enthusiastic about both to make it work. If you're enthusiastic about both then you will read. And, on top of that, reading is the way you learn what works, what doesn't, and how to express yourself effectively and appropriately for the genre. Writing includes reading, if don't enjoy reading how are you going to assess what you've written? Anything that I write that doesn't work for me when I read it is an immediate fail, it doesn't get passed on to anyone else - so I have to be able to enjoy reading, it's a prerequisite for how I work.
Of course VydorScope could be right, perhaps there are some that break the general rule, but it's a truly alien thought to me.