Who Are Your Top 10 Greatest Writers of All Time?

Where greatest can be analogous to favorite given the subjectivity of the question. Or you can do a Top 10 list of greatest and favorite if you are able to create an objective list.

All writers from philosphers to poets inclusive.

Dostoevsky
Lao Tzu
Aurelius
Thoreau
Hemingway
Schopenhauer
Woolf
Berdyaev
Whitman
Proust
>2bh

Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Cervantes

Bible
Homer
Virgil
Dante
Chaucer
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Milton
Moliere
Goethe

1. Me
2. Me
3. Me
4. Me
5. Me
6. Me
7. Me
8. Me
9. Me
10. Me

Pynchon, Wallace.... the list goes on

no it doesn't

T. Author of "My Diary Desu" desu

Homer
Plato
Paul of Tarsus
Augustine
Chaucer
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Milton
Goethe
Melville

According to Influence
0. Solomon
1. Anonymous (Of Sumer)
2. Homer
3. Ovid
4. Dante (although I kind of dislike hime)
5. Cervantes
6. Shakespeare
7. T.s. Eliot
8. Whitman
9. Mary Shelley
10. Tolkien

Favorites
Solomon (duh)
George Eliot
T.s. Eliot
Anne Sexton
Lucian (True History)
Ovid
Joyce

>Bible
Job and Ecclesiastes are the only well-written books desu.
The rest of the authors were decidedly non-literary.

I was actually thinking of the narrative sections of the Torah which are masterful literature so you can fuck right off

This is like god-tier.

except Paul ruined Christianity

Homer
Virgil
Dante
Cervantes
Shakespeare
Milton
Chaucer
Tolstoy
Joyce
Doestoyevski

>Christianity existing without Paul

>Paul
>not Constntine

Erikson
Shakespeare
King
Stover
Conrad
Lovecraft
Baudelaire
Ibsen
LaVey
Stoppard

>Christianity was good then it sold out
>Muh Constantinian shift
Protestants are literally hipsters

>He's never read Genesis, Exodus, Isaiah, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Luke, or John.

Gtfo

das Neetch
Shakespeare
Laozi
Plato
Based Edward Gibbon
Homer
Dante
Meister Eckhart
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
and obv Kanye

*switch ME for Blake

Greatest:

Shakespeare
Dante
Cervantes
Proust
Chaucer
Milton
Tólstoi
Montaigne
Flaubert
Petrarca

>ó
What did he mean by this?

Ah, Chervanteys

>Best WRITERS
>Homer

fair point. but i can't really conceive of any top-10 list or w/evs without him/them. i'm gaming a loophole & guilty as charged

they're also literally right