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Oct. '12

I would encourage young writers to read. Please read aloud. Go into a room, close the door, so you can hear how the language sounds. Read your own work and someone you admire. I’m a great admirer of Langston Hughes’ poetry and that of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Virginia Woolf. When I was trying to form my own voice, my own melody, I would read aloud, and I found it did me so much good.

—

Maya Angelou, in a recent interview with The Old Gold & Black, gives advice to aspiring writers.  (via queerfatfemme)

Every time I write something, I read it aloud before publishing it.  In fact, I try to read everything I write out loud.

(Source: oldgoldandblack.com)

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