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Will_Newsome comments on Who are some of the best writers in history? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 16 August 2013 12:52:58AM *  1 point [-]

For style, some diverse picks: Joyce, McCarthy, Nabokov, Carlyle, Heller, Nietzsche, Adams. Of course if you try to emulate any of those writers you'll likely just make a fool of yourself, with the possible exception of Adams. For stuff that's even less emulable: Dostoyevsky, Hofstadter, Eliot.