Re: whos you favorite author/poet?
Tolstoy can tell you what it's like to die. He can tell you what it's like to lead armies. He can tell you what's going on in the mind of a murderer. He can accurately describe how childish love can tear you apart. Most importantly, he can tell you the meaning of life (he actually gives two - one in War & Peace, and the other in Anna Karenina). He's actually experienced none of these (well, one, but I don't count death since he couldn't really write about it after he died).
Dostoevsky almost makes it on the murderer one in Brothers Karamazov, but not on the level of Tolstoy.
As far as I'm concerned, every single other person to ever lift a pen is tied for third.
EDIT: I take it back, that's mean. Shakespeare, Dickens, Faulkner, Vonnegut, etc are all better writers than, say, me.
Tolstoy can tell you what it's like to die. He can tell you what it's like to lead armies. He can tell you what's going on in the mind of a murderer. He can accurately describe how childish love can tear you apart. Most importantly, he can tell you the meaning of life (he actually gives two - one in War & Peace, and the other in Anna Karenina). He's actually experienced none of these (well, one, but I don't count death since he couldn't really write about it after he died).
Dostoevsky almost makes it on the murderer one in Brothers Karamazov, but not on the level of Tolstoy.
As far as I'm concerned, every single other person to ever lift a pen is tied for third.
EDIT: I take it back, that's mean. Shakespeare, Dickens, Faulkner, Vonnegut, etc are all better writers than, say, me.
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