To answer what is more necessary between writing and reading is easy, but tricky. Indeed, it can turn into a difficult question that is similar to the "who came first? the chicken or the egg?" tale.
According to AsapSCIENCE, some people support the "chicken came first" theory as the protein required for producing eggs can only be found inside chicken ovaries. Meanwhile, the "Egg team", based on the fact that two proto-chickens may have reproduced and due to the genetic variations the chicken egg was born, supports the other way around…
Applying the same principle, to achieve the writing excellence and become a good writer is a slow evolutionary process that starts with the reading phase.
Before becoming a best-seller author, you better learn how to read, and love to do it. In fact, according to a quote from the mythical writer Stephen King, “if you don't have time to read, you don't have the tools to write."
It's true. It doesn't matter if a person reads for leisure or for professional purposes (it doesn't even matter if we talk about an engineer who loves politics' books, for example), the best way to enrich the individual culture plus overall life experience is by reading lots of external materials, by engaging with other authors' ideas and perspectives. Reading really develops the readers' mind and many important cognitive processes like it was shown through Anne Cunningham's works.
The best ghostwriters, copywriters, creative writers, novel writers, sports journalists, etc., are avid readers. Just ask any experienced journalist you have nearby and see it for yourself. A good writer will always need to recur to other ideas to strengthen his/her own statements. By becoming an avid reader, a person can easily come with new ideas, edit own information, boost the content based on other authoritative authors, just as he/she will be able to determine the quality of the written material and learn from the weak spots.
An A+ writer is also someone that has a critical and proofreader eye for his/her own work. The more a writer reads, the more power and ability the person will have to tell what texts are really worth it, which ones meet high-quality standards and which ones are ones redundant and pointless information.
A great writer is someone who has a clear purpose and can adapt to different styles. Therefore a good text is a piece of valuable content with a particular and clear style, excellent grammar, punctuation and spelling, which ideas are fluently, intelligibly, and creatively connected to engage the target audiences. All those qualities can only be achieved and continuously polished by reading authoritative and quality texts.
Finally, the art of reading enables the writers to inspire themselves and, eventually, inspire others to make a change, just like the pioneers in journalism wanted to add creative innovations to Lasswell's traditional pyramid that was predominant in the news.
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