As a writer, do you find yourself reading to learn?

[Benoit AKoa]

Ever since I embarked on this rewarding and yet sometimes challenging journey as an author, I find myself no longer enjoying the simple pleasures of reading a novel for the sake of enjoyment. Lately, every book I have read has been a lesson, a look into my style and how I write. While reading others, I am spending more time learning their tweaks, and mine. I am no longer reading others and loving it like I used to back in the good old days. Can anyone relate?

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[I. J. Parker]

Oh, yes.

[Benoit AKoa]

That has become difficult for me to do. I read into the book a little too much. maybe its just the books I've been reading lately

[Pepper Smith]

I can still learn things when I read, and enjoy it when an author shows me something I haven't come across before. But I've also been writing since I was nine, so I don't read fiction with the aim of learning new techniques or how things go together. (Non-fiction, of course, I'm usually reading with the intent of learning new things, mostly for research for new stories.)