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- | "If, as it appears to me, a book is [[communication]], the [[author]] is only one link in a unity of different [[Reading (process) |reading]]s." --[[Georges Bataille]] from his essay "[[On Nietzsche|Sur Nietzsche]]". --tr. unidentified | + | |
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- | "[[Women's writing (literary category)|Women were often the first professional writer]]s and have produced a score of successful authors. Women have been [[patriarchally]] [[Social invisibility|erased]] from [[literary histories]], yet as [[Nina Baym]] and [[Resa Dudovitz]] have ascertained, bestsellers have often been written by women writers. | + | |
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- | Leslie Fiedler remarked in "[[Literature and Lucre]]" (The New York Times, May 31, 1981), "The [[struggle of High Art and Low]] is, moreover, a [[battle of the sexes]].""--Sholem Stein | + | |
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- | [[Image:Charles Baudelaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat]] (ca. [[1863]])]] | + | |
- | [[Image:The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Poor Poet]]'' (1839) is a painting by [[Carl Spitzweg]]]] | + | |
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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]]. | + | |
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- | 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 writer|technical writing]] and [[academic]] papers.) | + | |
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- | 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 theater|musical]]). | + | |
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- | ==Best-selling fiction authors== | + | |
- | :''[[List of best-selling books]]'' | + | |
- | Among '''[[best-selling]] [[fiction]] authors''' to date include [[Miguel de Cervantes]], [[Alexandre Dumas, père]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Jane Austen]], [[Jack Higgins]] and [[Leon Uris]]. But no exact figure could be found, although there are indications that they too have more than 100 million copies of their work in print. | + | |
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- | ==See also== | + | |
- | *[[Author]] | + | |
- | *[[Copywriter]] | + | |
- | *[[Cult fiction]] | + | |
- | *[[Ghostwriter]] | + | |
- | *[[Hack writer]] | + | |
- | *[[List of women writers]] | + | |
- | *[[Lists of writers]] | + | |
- | *[[Physician writer]] | + | |
- | *[[Professional writing]] | + | |
- | *[[Style guide]] | + | |
- | *[[Writer's voice]] | + | |
- | *[[Writing]] | + | |
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- | == See also == | + | |
- | *[[Jahsonic's literary canon]] | + | |
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