1. Reading and it's Importance to a Writer.

I agree that it's important for writers to read. They can pull all sorts of ideas and inspiration from others' works. Reading a variety of styles contributes to a writer's understanding of their options for style. Characters and their actions can spawn new ideas in the reader's mind. Events in the plot can spark memories of exciting events in the reader's life. The reader can then synthesize all these ideas for style, characters, and plot and use them to write something epic. Sometimes a writer's mind gets worn out and they just don't know what to write about, and that's when they need inspiration that they can get from reading. Any sort of reading can inspire new things, from children's books to collections of poetries to classic novels, to nonfiction articles. Even just reading the newspaper could do it. Reading is important to make progress in one's writing.