I just realized Leo #Tolstoy wrote the whole 1,225 pages of #WarandPeace with no research on the internet and no ai.

#literature #greatwriters #humor

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk." --Tom Waits

#GreatWriters #GreatQuotes #TomWaits https://universeodon.com/@IntentionallyBLANK/112818465567544072

@bmacDonald94 @JonChevreau This morning, I started re-reading "Venus on the Halfshell" by Kilgore Trout (transduced and recorded by Philip Jose Farmer). I believe I paid $2 for it to Apple Books. Philip includes a foreword in this edition, explaining how he came to write it. Great stuff.

I believe "Breakfast of Champions" was the book where Kilgore most found his voice--before VenusOTH.

#GreatWriters #Vonnegut #AuthorsOfMastodon #Synchronicity in #Writing

Great, Maria Popova! @mariapopova
Great Emily Dickinson!
(I disagree with Seneca's take on my wretchedness, my sorrows, and my learning...
“All your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched") But, hey, I've never been able to argue with him...

#Poetry #Philosophy #GreatWriters #TheMarginalian https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova/112417414550494049

"Are you sure it’s that simple?...I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." Poul Anderson [spoken by Poul's scientist character Arne Viken]

#History #TimelessQuotes #GreatWriters #Science #ScienceFiction #Nineteen57

How did I miss this? Kenzaburo Oe has died. I'll never forget reading books like "Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids" and "The Silent Cry".

His style was unique but "Nip the Buds" connected in my mind to Ödön von Horváth and his terrifying novel "Youth Without God", while the sense that the landscape in "The Silent Cry" was also the interior of the narrator's mind reminded me of Emily Brontë.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/kenzaburo-oe-nobel-prize-winning-japanese-writer-dies

#KenzaburoOe #Japan #literature #greatwriters #20thCliterature #日本文学 #JapaneseLiterature #odonvonhorvath #emilybronte #NobelPrize

> Arundhati Roy: ‘The point of the writer is to be unpopular’
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/17/arundhati-roy-interview-you-ask-the-questions-the-point-of-the-writer-is-to-be-unpopular

#LeslieFiedler #NoInThunder #GreatWriters #ArundhatiRoy

> NO, IN THUNDER!

> What people, what party, what church needs an enemy when it has a great writer in its ranks!
- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184005/mode/2up

#LeslieFIedler #NoInThunder #GreatWriters #Literature #essay