Top Five Favorite Writers of All Time

By Peter A. Cline (Guest Writer)

            Not judging each writer on their style or social approval but on their influence throughout

 the world and throughout history.  These are in my view the most influential and my most
favorite writer’s of all time. 

           By all mean’s my most favorite for what he has done in my life and a multitude of others

like Jim Morrison, Sigmund Freud, and Marilyn Manson, just to name a few, is undeniably
Friedrich Nietzsche.  My favorite work of all time also is “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”.   Met with
much criticism as having influenced the tyrant and sick socialist party Nazi leader, Nietzsche
remains a very poetic and intense figure in all of writing history.  His ideas about the superman, a
higher type of man who suffers the woes of a world without a God and creates his own values
in it as gained notice all around the world.  His affirmation “what does not kill you makes you
stronger” has been quoted in countless films and even modern day pop songs.  His creative mind 
will be sure to enlighten readers for centuries to come. 

           My second favorite would be, for me, Helen Keller.  The blind and deaf woman who

beyond all odds rose from the darkness in herself to write very insightful and in depth truths
about a life that she couldn’t evcn hear or see.

        My third favorite writer of all time would be St. Thomas Aquinas.  For his attempt to
reconcile. reason with the belief in God.  His most important and my most favorite work of which
was “The Summa Theologica”. It was in this book, he offered his famous five proofs of God’s
existence.  In the book how all change is caused by something which in turn is also caused by
something.  Henceforth, this cause he called God.  A very revered intellect and spiritual man, he
stands as one of those people in history who views writing to try and answer mankind’s deepest
questions. 

       My fourth favorite writer of all time I would say it would be Anne Rice. Her ability

to spend a yawn around the mysterious nature of th supernatural has captivated the modern
world.   She is the very definition of a writer, manifesting all of human nature into a supernatural
question.  Putting people in the place of vampires, letting us see through the eyes of supernatural
creatures and then reflecting back with a human view of this nature. 

      Finally, my last favorite writer of all time, would be Shakespeare.  It is inspiring how he

could inspire the human soul with incredible insight and great longing in his play.  This was a 
miracle itself.   My favorite work by Shakespear is “Hamlet”.  The question “to be or not to be”
after hundreds of years is the question.