Reading is Prewriting

By reading more, you are enhancing your writing. You learn how to write better from the books you read  because you take in the author's way of words. I've read books that grab my attention, and I feel like I can read it for a couple hours each day. The author's writing glues you to the page and you pick up their secret of how to do that to readers. It also could go the opposite way, where you read a book or something, and you can't take another look at it. It's so boring and dull that you would want to do anything else but read it. This is good too because you've learned how not to write like that.

After finishing a good book, I feel that I can get inspiration from their writing and just want to pick up and pen and paper and just start writing. The only problem with this though, is that it's likely that you are going to steal their charm and make it your own, instead of writing your own original work. Their use of words will become yours, their story line will become yours, and their characters will turn into yours. So something that can prevent you from doing this is to wait awhile till you write after you read a really good book. 
However you can use some of an author's techniques, since it can always help you get good ideas.
But to originally put some of your own unique ideas on the page is to read books on writing. I feel that these have really helped me, and sometimes it's not always enough to read it once... so you can soak in the words of advice and apply it to your writing. Some of these books on writing include, Escaping into the open by Elizabeth Berg, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, Struck by Lightning by Natalie Goldberg, and many more. So if you want to become a better write, start reading!