What's the top 10 of all time writers?

What's the top 10 of all time writers?

Objective list, non meme subjective crap.

1. William Faulkner
2. gap
3. gap
4. gap
5. Shakespeare
6-10. others

1.) John Green
2.) Tao Lin
3.) Luise Rinser
4.) Karl Marx
5.) Kevin MacDonald
6.) Homer
7.) Julius Evola
8.) Rupi Kaur
9.) Shakespeare
10.) Tolkien

Proust
Tolstoy
Power gap
Woolf

my diary

1. Shakespeare
2. Milton
3. Dante
4. Joyce
5. Tolstoy
6. Proust
7. Faulkner
8. Dostoevsky
9. Nabokov
10. Cervantes

Granted, if Homer is allowed, slot him in at #1 and bump everyone else down.

no bully doge

1. jahwist source
2. shakespeare
3. homer
4. dante
5. joyce
6. euripides
7. cervantes
8. proust
9. milton
10. goethe

>1. William Faulkner
>americans actually think faulkner is good
hahaha, oh man...

I chuckled, have a (You).

this nigga think faulkner bad lmfao

was about to respond seriously to this but then i remembered i was talking to an amorphous blob of fat subsiting on fast food and soda

i said no memes you worthless fuck

>wants to exchange ideas without memes

how can DFW ever recover?

Objectively

1. Shakespeare
2. Dante
3. Homer
4. Tolstoy
5. Chaucer
6. Dickens
7. Joyce
8. Milton
9. Virgil
10. Goethe

Lit is so bad it's just people who know nothing about each other using escalating levels of ad hominems

>it's just people who know nothing about each other using escalating levels of ad hominems
fuckin kek, on the money

Milton over Dante?

p l e b

so you're saying that we should have flags so we can use more effectively use ad hominem attacks

IMO people that use memes in any way are total faggots

>6. Dickens
I literally feel sick

No order:

1. Shakespeare
2. Chaucer
3. Dante
4. Joyce
5. Homer
6. Virgil
7. Petrarch
8. Dostoevsky
9. Cervantes
10. Conrad

1. Ezra Pound
2. Virgil
3. Dante
4. Ovid
5. Lucretius
6. Thomas Browne
7. Boccaccio
8. Robert Burton
9. Marlowe
10. Shakespeare

Excellent choices: are you a Renaissance scholar? Don't see Browne and Burton mentioned much.

1. Mickiewicz
2. Dante
3. Shakespeare
4. Moliere
5. Dan Brown
6. Jules Verne
7. Victor Hugo
8. Lord Byron
9. Ovid
10. Stuff like Coelho, Machiavelli and other classics, sequence is not really important from 6 place.

;)

You're gonna want to take Geoff and bump that big boi up to number one, my friend

Homer
Dante
Shakespeare
Milton
Cervantes
Montaigne
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Proust
Beckett

pound is a joke compared to everyone else there

1) Gilgamesh author(s)
2) Homer
3) Plato
4) Yahwist author(s)
5) Shakespeare
6) Dante
7) Milton
8) Joyce
9) Proust
10) Tolstoy

1. Celine
2. Dostoevski
3. Shakespeare
...
Proust
Joyce
Dante
Tolstoy
Moliere
Chateaubriand
Pétrarque

>who are your personal favorites based on your own arbitrary standards of value/greatness?
>your list better also contain those who are objectively the best or gtfo!

Not to mention that pic . . . you're a shit human being, OP

I git a song for y'all
U better m...make the fall
But that's alright for the doll
Who's hiding in the mall

What's your top three list of top ten lists in this thread?

OP you're a cunt that picture made me sad.

ok listen up op, because I'm gonna give you the straight dope like noone else on Veeky Forums can. here it is, here they are

OBJECTIVE TOP 10 ALL TIME WRITERS

1. Charles Dickens
2. Samuel Beckett
3. Virginia Woolf
4. Thomas Pynchon
5. Herman Melville
6. James Joyce
7. Honoré de Balzac
8. Virgil
9. Jonathan Swift
10. Mark Twain