做更好的读者：五种方法培养你的阅读能力

Writing and reading go hand-in-hand: how and what you read affects how and what you write, and the best readers often make the best writers. But while much can be learned from close, repeated readings, there are many secretive pleasures to language that can only be experienced through the practice of writing.
写作和阅读是相辅相成的：你怎样阅读，阅读什么将会影响你写作的方式和写作的内容，而最好的读者往往会是最好的作者。然而即使我们可以从深入和重复阅读中学到很多东西，但仍然有许多不为人知的快乐是只有你通过写作才能体会到的。

This is why certain authors are labeled “writer’s writers”; another level of meaning and intense appreciation exists for those who create rather than simply observe. Try writing every day for a month; you will never read the same again.
这就是为什么某些作者会被说成“作家的作家”，另一层意思和强烈的欣赏为那些创造而不仅仅是观察的人存在着。试着一个月每一天都写作；你的阅读习惯也再不会跟以前一样。

5. Tell your friends.
讲给朋友

All of literature is essentially communication from an individual’s inner voice to an audience. Though Franz Kafka’s dying wish was that all of his works—written in obscurity, often late at night, and mostly unpublished—be burned, aren’t we glad his friend, Max Brod, didn’t listen?
文学本质上是从一个人的内心的声音与观众沟通。即使卡夫卡的遗愿是他所有的作品都要被烧毁——他的作品都是在深夜默默写的，而且几乎都是没有发表的——难道我们不应该为他的朋友马克西-布拉德没有听从他的遗愿而高兴吗？

There is something magical about sharing books with friends or a book club. It’s a good way to see the world from someone else’s eyes and, in the process, critically examine your own reaction to what you’re reading.
与自己的朋友或是一个图书俱乐部的人分享书是件很美妙的事情。这是一个很好的方式去了解别人眼中的世界，然后在此过程中，认真地审视自己对所阅读的内容的反应。