Quotations and Literature Forum

Orson Scott Card
Jules Verne
Jack London
Rex Stout
and Juliet Mariller

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There is no good or evil there is only power, the power of love, justice, truth, and The Unexplainable, and those to weak to seek it shall become lost

For sheer power and lyricism: F. Scott Fitzgeral.

For pure fun: P.G. Wodehouse

For inspiration: C.S. Lewis

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Life is hard, but it IS worth living

I don't think I could choose a favorite author, but some authors that come to mind are:

James Joyce
Jack Kerouac
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charles Bukowski
Mikhail Bulgakov
Anthony Burgess

You and me both, Bouvre! I've been putting off posting in this thread because I kept trying to make a shortlist.

My list:
Robertson Davies- personal favourite: The Deptford Trilogy
Umberto Eco - personal favourite: The Name of the Rose
Doris Lessing - personal favourite: The Golden Notebook
P.G. Wodehouse - personal favourite: Leave It to Psmith
John Irving - personal favourite: A Son of the Circus
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - personal favourite: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Michel Basilieres - personal favourite: Black Bird
Margret Atwood - personal favourite: It's a tie - The Robber Bride and The Penelopiad

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"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for truth." - Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Jules Verne
Dan Brown
Oscar Wilde
Paulo Coelho
Aytunç Altındal(He is Turkish and i recommend u to read his books,for example, The Unknown Hitler, if u r interested in the history, u'll like that!)

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"God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire

Orson Scott Card
Robin McKinley
Anne McCaffrey
Anne Bishop
Elizabeth Haydon
J. K. Rowling
David Eddings (not the recent ones, but the old stuff, like the Belgariad)
Kate Forsyth
L. M. Montgomery
Jennifer Roberson

Rand
Orwell
Pullman
Tolstoy
Maupassant
Hugo
Dumas
Hardy
Ibsen
Brittain
Doestoevsky
Forster
Huxley
Chekov
Tartt
Poe

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"The proper study of mankind is man."
Alexander Pope

I love the writings of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Louisa May Alcott is also a great writer.

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Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who matter don't mind,
and those who mind don't matter.