The art of stealing: books I loved while writing mine

Since my book was published, I’ve been getting a lot of book-ish questions.

I was recently giving a talk towriting students and they asked me what I like to read, and what I think writers should be reading. I found myself saying, “I think it’s importantto read great work and then steal it.”

I quickly backtracked – okay, I’m not encouraging you to ‘steal’ as in‘plagiarize.’ I mean steal like…borrow another author’svoice and try it on. See what it lookslike with your own spin. Avoice is just l...