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The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using language to portray ideas and images, whether producing fiction or non-fiction.

A writer may compose in many different forms, including (but certainly not limited to) poetry, prose, or music. Accordingly, a writer in specialist mode may rank as a poet, novelist, composer, lyricist, playwright, mythographer, journalist, film scriptwriter, etc. (See also: creative writing, technical writing and academic papers.)

Writers' output frequently contributes to the cultural content of a society, and that society may value its writerly corpus -- or literature -- as an art much like the visual arts (see: painting, sculpture, photography), music, craft and performance art (see: drama, theatre, opera, musical).

Canonical writers

A - Kathy Acker - Dante Alighieri - Martin Amis - Guillaume Apollinaire - Pietro Aretino - Aristophanes - Aristotle - Antonin Artaud - Henry Spencer Ashbee - B - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly - J G Ballard - Iain Banks - Georges Bataille - Charles Baudelaire - Sylvia Beach - Simone de Beauvoir - Ben Sira - Maurice Blanchot - William Blake - Giovanni Boccaccio - Jorge Luis Borges - Bertolt Brecht - Restif de la Bretonne - Charles Bukowski - Mikhail Bulgakov - William S. Burroughs - Lord Byron - C - Angela Carter - Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Miguel de Cervantes - Geoffrey Chaucer - John Cleland - Robert Coover - D - Denis Diderot - Jenny Diski - Fyodor Dostoevsky - E - Bret Easton Ellis - Paul Éluard - F - J. Sheridan Le Fanu - G - Théophile Gautier - Jean Genet - William Gibson - Maurice Girodias - Nikolai Gogol - Alain Robbe-Grillet - Brothers Grimm - Gutenberg - H - H. Rider Haggard - Knut Hamsun - W.F. Hermans - E.T.A. Hoffmann - Michel Houellebecq - Aldous Huxley - Joris Karl Huysmans - J - Alfred Jarry - Elfriede Jelinek - James Joyce - K - Franz Kafka - Jack Kerouac - Ken Kesey - Stephen King - Pierre Klossowski - L - Choderlos De Laclos - Comte de Lautréamont - D.H. Lawrence - Gaston Leroux - Jack London - Eric Losfeld - Pierre Louys - H. P. Lovecraft - M - Norman Mailer - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Henry Miller - Octave Mirbeau - Alberto Moravia - Alfred de Musset - N - Vladimir Nabokov - André de Nerciat - Anaïs Nin - O - Joyce Carol Oates - Ovid - P - Chuck Palahniuk - Jean-Jacques Pauvert - Edgar Allan Poe - Plato - Mervyn Peake - Samuel Pepys - Luigi Pirandello - Q - Thomas De Quincey - R - François Rabelais - Ann Radcliffe - Pauline Réage - Anne Rice - Arthur Rimbaud - Edogawa Rampo - Barney Rosset Jean-Jacques Rousseau - S - Marquis de Sade - Jean Paul Sartre - Arthur Schnitzler - Shakespeare - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Gertrude Stein - Robert Louis Stevenson - Jonathan Swift - Algernon Swinburne - T - Jim Thompson - Alexander Trocchi - Mark Twain - V - Paul Valéry - Jules Verne - Gore Vidal - Boris Vian - Voltaire - W - Horace Walpole - Edgar Wallace - H.G. Wells - Oscar Wilde - Colin Wilson - Virginia Woolf



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