Authors Who Changed You And Society

[dougsan]

I have been unable to locate a thread dedicated to the writers whose words made us writers, poets and readers.

My list of important writers starts with George Orwel, a story I'll share sometime.
After Mr. Orwel came Hemingway -- live life as a man, not like me, but as a man.

And the list grew to poets, e.e. cummings, my favorite poet to this day, another story for another day.

So, please, who are the writers who impacted the creative side of you?

 

[IndieSnob]

Amicus & Jeninflorida.

 

[JohnnySavage]

k.r. cummings!


I wonder where he's been lately.

 

[koalabear]

Dr Suess

 

[CHNOPS]

George Orwell thought people who spelled his name wrong were talentless hacks.

Margot Hemingway was not an author, and it was never proven that she was a lesbian.

e.e. cummings was just a pseudonym he used for posting on porn boards. His real name was Dick Largeness.

 

[the_kuntess]

I have been unable to locate a thread dedicated to the writers whose words made us writers, poets and readers.

My list of important writers starts with George Orwel, a story I'll share sometime.
After Mr. Orwel came Hemingway -- live life as a man, not like me, but as a man.

And the list grew to poets, e.e. cummings, my favorite poet to this day, another story for another day.

So, please, who are the writers who impacted the creative side of you?

Steinbeck and Woolf. Not sure they impacted the creative side of me, however, both authors produced books that spoke to me.

 

[blackleggings]

I have been unable to locate a thread dedicated to the writers whose words made us writers, poets and readers.

My list of important writers starts with George Orwel, a story I'll share sometime.
After Mr. Orwel came Hemingway -- live life as a man, not like me, but as a man.

And the list grew to poets, e.e. cummings, my favorite poet to this day, another story for another day.

So, please, who are the writers who impacted the creative side of you?

I have had an obsession with Ernest Hemingway for almost 10 years. If you include him, other Lost Generation authors and poets should be included as well. Stein for sure.

 

[SBroadB9]

I have had an obsession with Ernest Hemingway for almost 10 years. If you include him, other Lost Generation authors and poets should be included as well. Stein for sure.

I really like Hemingway, too. John Dos Passos used to be another favorite of mine. And, of course, Faulkner.

 

[CHNOPS]

Dear everyone in this thread:

You are not authors.

You're welcome.

Love,
Sonny

 

[JohnnySavage]

Dear everyone in this thread:

You are not authors.

You're welcome.

Love,
Sonny

I'm going to publish an anthology of my best posts.

 

[blackleggings]

Dear everyone in this thread:

You are not authors.

You're welcome.

Love,
Sonny

Oh I agree. I just like to read. I can't write at all and don't pretend to. Especially from my phone.

 

[CHNOPS]

I'm going to publish an anthology of my best posts.

That's OK, a lot of authors pitch books before they have any content for them.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

George V. Higgins, John LeCarre, Charles Dickens, Chester Himes, Marjorie Rawlings, Stephen King, Mark Twain, Truman Capote, Elmore Leonard, Cormac McCarthy, Victor Hugo

 

[dougsan]

Sorry about the Orwel for Orwell. My bad. The Margot Hemingway shit was oddly placed. The bs about e. e. cummings shows a bit is lacking somewhere.

I believe I asked for the opinions of writers and readers and nothing in this thread suggests anyone who reads it thinks of themselves as an author.

Might I ask what your problem is? You attack without detailing why. Are you a writer without words or a reader without insight? Why do you find it necessary to tell people you probably don't know that they are not authors -- something you can't know? I am a published author. If you would like to make a wager on that statement I will chat. I like round numbers and zeros.

 

[oggbashan]

Homer; Aeschylus; Aristotle; Socrates; Sophocles; Virgil; Caesar; Ovid; Catullus; Cicero; Horace; Tacitus; Geoffrey Chaucer; William Shakespeare; John Milton; Daniel Defoe; Christopher Marlowe; Dr Johnson; Edmund Gibbons; Cervantes; Moliere; Racine; William Blake; Thomas Paine; De Tocqueville; William Blackstone; Sir Francis Bacon; Thomas Love Peacock; Shelley; Thackeray; Trollope; Keats; R L Stephenson; Rudyard Kipling; William Schwenck Gilbert; Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch; Ernest Bramah; Robert Van Gulik; C J Dennis; Arthur Upfield; Goethe; Schiller;...

That is a very incomplete list. I could go on and on and on...

Many authors have changed society. Any author I have read has changed me if only for me to say "I couldn't/wouldn't write like that...".

 

[butters]

shakespeare (everything)
tolkien (hobbit and l.o.t.r)
c.s.lewis (the narnia books and the screwtape letters)
anna sewell (black beauty)
anne maccaffrey
edgar rice burroughs

byron
(the romantic poets)
wordsworth
walt whitman
pablo neruda
oscar wilde

rudyard kipling
stephen king
j.k.rowling
terry pratchett

asimov
arthur c clarke
aldous huxley
stanislaw lem


oh, too many to list

 

[Squibbs]

Moses.

 

[Adre]

Raymond Carver
John Updike
Saul Bellow
Ernest Hemingway
Haruki Murakami
Richard Russo
Jumpha Lahiri
Oh, fuck, I don't have the patience.

 

[oggbashan]

...

Oh, fuck, I don't have the patience.

I agree.

When I was young, I owned a book published in 1948 that listed the 1,000 books "a gentleman" was supposed to read, and to have read before he could be considered minimally educated. The preface made it clear that they expected "gentlewomen" to have read them too.

I would still agree with most of that list, except for a few that were names in the 1930s and less read now, such as Walter Pater and A J Cronin. I would now add at least another 500 books written since 1948.

The 1,000 books included classics of Greek and Latin literature together with European, Indian and Asian classics. From memory, the only significant omissions were then modern US writers such as Sinclair Lewis.

Some years ago, The Times tried to make a list of the essential 100 books that an educated person should have read. The correspondence went on and on but the consensus was that the essential list was closer to 2,000 than 100.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

interesting..

 

[CHNOPS]

Sorry about the Orwel for Orwell. My bad. The Margot Hemingway shit was oddly placed. The bs about e. e. cummings shows a bit is lacking somewhere.

I believe I asked for the opinions of writers and readers and nothing in this thread suggests anyone who reads it thinks of themselves as an author.

Might I ask what your problem is? You attack without detailing why. Are you a writer without words or a reader without insight? Why do you find it necessary to tell people you probably don't know that they are not authors -- something you can't know? I am a published author. If you would like to make a wager on that statement I will chat. I like round numbers and zeros.

You seem confused.

 

[pointless]

theodor geisel.

 

[CHNOPS]

theodor geisel.

Edit! Quick! Abort!!

Dr Suess

 

[pointless]

damn my inability to read the posts of idiots!

 

[pointless]

is it too late to say shel silverstein?