If you really want to turbo your writing skills, don’t just read. The trick is to interact with text. Actually engage it in some way that suits you. Copy it out by hand, sing it in the shower, dissect it in your margin notes, rewrite it in your voice and perform it for your cat—it doesn’t even matter which method you choose

Whenever I take what I read to the next level and interact, some kind of secret compounding is triggered. I look back three months later and have to admit, weirdly my writing got better. We absorb the consciousness of text on another level when we go to the trouble of engaging it