The key to being a good writer? It’s being a good reader, authors including Carol Ann Duffy and Alan Moore have said this World Book Day. However, commonly doled-out advice such as “write what you know” is “dreadful”, says Lee Child.
Sharing advice and tips for budding writers, former poet laureate Duffy says that “one of the most important things you can do if you want to write a poem is read a poem”.
