GREAT WRITERS OF FICTION ARE SUPERIOR TO SAINTS AND SCIENTISTS

A good author of fiction must be like god. He has to create a universe, a world, and a cast of characters. Then he must tell a creative story that is entertaining and useful. Many have tried but only a few have succeeded. Some of the best have been: Ken Follett, Stieg Larsson, Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Anton Chekhov  Let me be obscurely clear, a word is not the same with one writer as with another. One gets it from his mind. The other pulls it out of his ass! For example, Chekhov said, “Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass". That is creativity.

The best teacher about life is experience but one lifetime limits your experience. You can avoid this limiting factor by reading the works of good authors. Well written novels provide excellent lessons about life. From history and psychology to the meaning of life, it’s all there in the famous novels of literature. Man as a novelist is superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet. They describe what man is but never get the whole picture like the novelist does. The novelist gives a complete description of life in a similar fashion as does the Bible, which is the bestselling book of all time. They say it is the best story ever told, but the author is in dispute.

                                                                

                                 

                                       Anton Chekhov