The Need to Read - Paul Graham ![rw-book-cover|200x400](http://www.paulgraham.com/favicon.ico) ## Metadata - Author: **Paul Graham** - Full Title: The Need to Read - Category: #articles - URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/read.html ## Highlights - The reason it would matter is that writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8mfgcx2hpjan5zg2z4rtb3r)) - If you don't need to go too deeply into a problem, you can solve it without writing ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8mfjy0zk5d4cbgzfetzdtqp)) - You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8mg473pbvkwzf5d60pjq7nj))