But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago.
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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