Stephen King has written a lot of books, especially horror novels. In On Writing he says that we can become better writers if we read a lot of books. The reason he says this is because we can see the different styles of writings and incorporate in our own. Stephen King used this method in his own writing. He states that every year, he reads an average of 70-80 books. He likes to read fiction stories and tends to use a lot of the ideas to help create his own writing. Stephen reads in order to measure himself against the good writers as well as the bad. He does this to experience different styles of writing. I can relate to to Stephen’s style of writing. I also believe that reading many books does help with my writing. It also helps with my