How Do I Know What I Think Until I See What I Say?

There's an interesting post over at Fangs, Fur & Fey asking what people read while they write. Some of the respondents have said that they have to read outside their own genres while they writer, and some of them have said that they don't read any fiction at all while they write, which, wow. I personally am a constant reader. There's no way I could stop reading while I wrote or I would either (a) never read again or (b) never write again. Even when I was in law school, I read all the time.* But I do have to be careful about what I read when I write, because I am a person who picks up style very easily, and if I read something too distinctive, then it can end up influencing what I'm writing whether I want it to or not. So, for example, I can read anything by Stephen King. Fiction, non-fiction,** he is style neutral for me, I think because his own style is so natural. He has his tricks and tropes as we all do, but it feels natural to him, and so it feels natural