Favourite Writers?
Who are your favourite masters (and mistresses) of the quill? Let's confine this to fiction, but leave it open amongst genre and medium. Of course, it's often impossible to pick one favourite (it is for me), so go ahead and list several if you wish, and rank them (or not) at your options!
My sheaf of writers:
J.R.R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare, Graham Greene, John Milton, Neil Gaiman, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Warren Zevon, and Woody Allen.
Those are in no particular order, and I've definitely forgotten many, many names. Of course, there are other names that I love dearly but I'm not quite sure I would put to the list. Douglas Adams, for instance, has been responsible for a good many guffaws and thoughtful moments in my history of reading (and viewing, and listening), but I'm not sure I'd put him to the top with those others. There are many, like Adams, who I would consider to be giants, even if they are not the giant-est of them.