Do you have to read a lot to be a good writer?

IQ90 here. Nah. Just speak what's on your mind.

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>>9014536
Caedmon, who composed the earliest surviving English (Anglo-Saxon) poem, was an illiterate peasant

All u need is some of that divine inspiration familam

>>9014536

Life experiences and some decent vocabulary is all you really need. Telling a life experience is something that comes naturally, and most anyone can do it. Creating a fictional one that's believable and provokes emotional thought is an austere challenge in itself, and that's when you should start reading the work others once you cross over into that realm, because it's more easily criticized in the light of 'would that really happen?' especially if it's realistic fiction.

Depends what you want to write about, OP.

>>9014552
>earliest surviving

Wow, incredible. He must be the best writer of all time then!

>>9014536
No. You just have to be smart and have something to say

>>9015588
>if he's not the best writer of all time then he's not worth a good writer
kys before you become old enough to procreate

>there are people who think you shouldnt read 100x more than you write

well i guess this explains the critique threads

>>9014536
Read a lot, and live a lot. You need to have something to say, and the means to say it.

>>9015588
no, but maybe homer was?