Copying

If you're planning to study another writer's writing, in order to learn how to be a better writer–which I highly recommend you do–you might want to go one step further than simply reading the words on the page–even if you plan to read them over and over again.  What I do is find a scene I like a lot, one that's a great example of that writer's writing that I want to understand better, in terms of how it was constructed using only words, and type it out, word for word (for this reason, it might be a good idea to choose a shorter scene, although there's the potential to learn more from a longer one).  

The act of typing out every word in the scene forces you to pay attention to each one, how each one relates to those around it, how a string of them forms a strong sentence, and how several sentences, constructed in the same way, forms a powerful paragraph.  You'd be surprised how doing this puts you in the shoes of the writer, making the decisions he did when he recorded each word, in the order he recorded them, what he was thinking at the time, why he used that word instead of another one, why he used that punctuation (or none at all), why his writing works, why it comes alive for you, why you think he's a great writer.   

Your greatest teachers are other writers.  And everywhere you look, there are books available to provide you with a master class of how to write (and, in some cases, how not to write).  All you have to do is pick one up, particularly one from a cherished writer, and figure out what he did, not by reading what he did, but by copying it.  I use this technique all the time, and I promise it works.

(And, if you want to go one step further, write out the scene, word for word, in long hand.  If that doesn't slow you down to ponder the magic of each word, nothing will.  Again, a technique I use often.)