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‘We don’t have to circle the world in order to find beauty and fulfilment. After all, most of livinghas to happen in the mind. And, to quote one anonymous sage from my trivet, “The world isonly the size of each man’s head.”’Writers will often tell you that the most important thing you can do to build your skill is to readother great writers. Reading is not only food for the soul but also fodder for the brain. We often onlyrealize in hindsight what impact reading a book leaves on us—when we work in new knowledge inconversations, when we use a word that even impresses us, when we articulate a thought so well ittakes us by surprise, when we meet new people because of a book they saw us reading.In Read Well, Write Well, Ruskin Bond brings us a collection of stories, personal essays and poemsthat take us to wonderful fictional worlds, that illuminate—through his own encounters with readingand writing—the significance of association with the written word.