Goodreads asked Marne Wilson:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Marne Wilson If you want to be a good writer, first you have to be a good reader. (If you don't genuinely enjoy reading what other people write, I don't know why you want to be a writer anyway.) While it's fine to have favorites that you come back to, don't got locked into one narrow genre of reading. People often tell me that my work is unusual or surprising, and I think that's because I've read so voraciously across genre and disciplinary lines. The more diverse material your mind has to work on, the more likely that you'll come up with something uniquely your own, rather than something that sounds like a pale imitation of your favorite writers.

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