Becoming a Master
So, do you want to become a great writer a master? Then, follow those who, with their words, have moved your soul forward. These are some of my favourites, but you can add yours and make this a most precious list:
Franz Kafka, Andre Gide, Pearl S. Buck, Herman Melville, Hermann Hesse, Harper Lee, Vladimir Nabokov, Marguerite Duras, St. Exupery, J. D. Salinger, J.M. Coetzee, Kahlil Gibran, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Guy de Maupassant, Ray Bradbury, Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, E. Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, George Orwell, Sommerset Maugham, Nicolas Gogol, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jose Saramago, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Luis Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Henry James, Truman Capote, Boris Pasternak, Miguel de Cervantes, Stendhal, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Pushkin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Charles Dickens, Emile Dickenson, Virginia Woolf, Umberto Eco, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, Boris Pasternak, Honore de Balzac, Simone de Beauvoir, Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, James Joyce, Leon Uris, Leo Tolstoy, Hans Christian Andersen, Pearl S. Buck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Virginia Woolf, Emile Dickinson, Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Doyle, Orhan Panuk, Alice Munro, Sal Godoij, (yes, I'm one of my favourites 😊) And now it is your time to add your great authors to this list. (And do not forget to write your name too. Remember: Aim for the moon. Even if you don't reach it, you will stay among the stars).