Who Is Your Favorite Writer?

So who is your favorite writer? Or if there's more than one, list those who used their pen to speak to you like nobody else seems to. And I said writer, so that includes novelists, poets, short story writers.
For me: William Shakespeare, Mikhail Bulgakov, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra.

 

At the moment i'm truly into Fantasy and Sci-Fi so it'll be Robin Hobb, Raymond E Feist, Brian Lumley and George RR Martin. But as with everything it changes whenever i go into a library!

 

Russian: Ivan Efremov, Albert Ivanov, Ivan Savchenko... Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Lermontov, Leonid Solovyev... no modern authors.

Foreign: Jim Corbett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Professor Tolkien. I like Dickens too. Jack London was my favorite writer once Mark Twain is not bad... Arthur Clark is one of the American sci-fi writers (am I right?) I've read, but he is not so nice. Most of them I've read in translations.

rastafal, do you really love Cervantes, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky? IMHO, Tolstoy is really terrible in original, Dostoevsky is rather paranoid, and Cervantes could use less words to write his long book. Bulgakov is a brilliant writer, but he surely had some serious problems with his head...

 

I think , for the most of reasons - Jules Verne.

 

Nick Perumov, Charles de Lint, Simon R. Green.

 

P.K. Dick, U. Gibson, R. Zelazny, H. Wells, F. Herbert, S. King, M. Bulgakov, S. Lukianenko, N. Perumov.

 

I think all of truly brilliant writers had some problems with head=)

 

Well, if I can name such writer, then it would be Clifford Simak.
Kinda tough question, though.

 

Umberto Eco, J.L.Borges, Boris Vian, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodskiy, Mark Twen, Jerome C. Jerome, Viktor Pelevin, A. Sapkowsky, Strugatskie brothers and (separately) Boris as Vititskiy, Ryunoske Akutagawa.. A lot of %)

 

Andrzej Sapkowski, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Andre Norton etc. %)

 

My favourite writers are Walter Scott, Henry Rider Haggard, Guy Gavriel Kay, Georges Simenon, Franklin W. Dickson, Terry Pratchett.

 

Stephen King, Mikhail Bulgakov, I. Ilf & E. Petrov, Sergei Lukianenko, Aizek Azimov, Clifford Saimak, Ray Bradbury, The Robert Heinlein etc..

 

Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, Chuck Palahniuk, Patrick Süskind, Evelyn Waugh, Ray Bradbury, Strugatskie, Stanislaw Lem... actually, there is much more.

 

F.R. Kreutzwald.

 

Strugatsky brothers, Sergey Lukyanenko, William Gibson, Roger Zelazny, Harry Harrison, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Sheckley...

But the Strugatsky brothers are the best writers as for me.

 

Andrzej Sapkovski with his "Wiedzmin" and Harry Harrison with his "The Stainless Steel Rat".

 

William Cuthbert Faulkner

 

Frank Herbert, Hary Harrison, Alexandre Dumas.

 

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Stanislaw Lem, Lois McMaster Bujold, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson...
And i think thats it... for now...