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This is a great motto for a writer to have:<\/p>\n

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It’s up to me, not the reader, to do the work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s Lee Child speaking<\/a> in an article by Charles McGrath. I know literary types who would disagree with the sentiment—Let the readers do some work<\/i>, they will say, it’s rewarding for them<\/i>—but if reading feels like work, then it should not be done. <\/p>\n

I’m not as good a writer as I’d like to be, so I do the smart thing and stick to short posts on India Uncut—by the time you get tired of them, they’re over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a great motto for a writer to have:<\/p>\n

\n

It’s up to me, not the reader, to do the work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s Lee Child speaking<\/a> in an article by Charles McGrath. I know literary types who would disagree with the sentiment—Let the readers do some work<\/i>, they will say, it’s rewarding for them<\/i>—but if reading feels like work, then it should not be done. <\/p>\n

I’m not as good a writer as I’d like to be, so I do the smart thing and stick to short posts on India Uncut—by the time you get tired of them, they’re over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,27,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWriting Is Work; Reading Should Not Be - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/writing-is-work-reading-should-not-be\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Writing Is Work; Reading Should Not Be - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a great motto for a writer to have: It’s up to me, not the reader, to do the work. 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