How do you feel about authors? Can there really be a great author?

answers1: Yes, there are great authors, I love reading and I do have
my favorite authors. Ask someone who knows a lot about books (a friend
who reads a lot, a librarian, etc.) to recommend you books or authors
(tell them what you like and stuff)...and go from there. I think most
people find that if they like one book from an author they'll like
most others from that author as well, but it isn't always the case, of
course.
answers2: As an avid reader, I think there are alot of great authors
out there, waiting to be read.
answers3: I believe that every author has their own potential and
should be given a chance.
answers4: i love authors, especially when i have read many of their
books. And of course, there can be a really great author, there can
be many really great authors! you just need to read more books and
perhaps you will find this to be true for yourself! Some that I have
in my opinion found to be great, are Isaac Asimov and Kurt Vonnegut.
I have read many of their books and feel that I know them both well!
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It is a matter of opinion though, you will have to make your own:)
happy reading!
answers5: I consider Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, Christopher
Paolini and a zillion others to be great authors. It all depends on
your opinion though.
answers6: I will go with Stephen King on this one. He says there is a
pyramid of writers. At the bottom are bad ones. There are TONS of them
out there. Above them a group which is slightly smaller, but still
large and welcoming; these are the competent writers. They may also be
found on the staff of your local newspaper, on the racks of a local
bookstore and at poetry readings on Open Mike Night. The next level is
really good writers. And above that - above almost all of us - are the
Shakespeares, the Faulkners, the Yeatses, Shaws and Eudora Weltys.
They are geniuses, divine accidents, gifted in a way which is beyond
our ability to understand, let alone attain. <br>
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Yes. There are a few really great authors - though not that many.
These days, I can only think of a very few who may one day be
considered great authors. Cormac Mc Carthy, Margaret Atwood, perhaps
Ursula Le Guin. Maybe Toni Morrison. Maybe Pablo Neruda. But the jury
is still out on these people. <br>
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You should not associate "popular" with greatness. They are two very
different things. Writers like Stephanie Meyer and JK Rowling will
never never have their names spoken in the same sentence with
Hemingway. They are merely de rigeur. Greatness is not in their
futures. <br>
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The rest of us should shoot for the "really good" level. You will have
lots of company there - including Mr. King himself. Pax-C
answers7: I love authors. I feel that there are a few great authors,
and such is expressed in how they write, what subjects they choose,
and many other things.