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I have a simple question for my fellow authors to ponder today: What author(s) do you aspire to write like but know that you could never come close to matching?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not to say, who is your favorite author(s). Rather, who is it that inspires you especially because they are so great that they could never be surpassed? You read their work and every time it leaves you in awe, because you can\u2019t figure out how they ever could have conceived of writing something so beautiful, so profound, so impossible.<\/p>\n
For me, that author is Milan Kundera. Every time I read one of his novels, I become enraptured by the startling ways he structures his stories. They are like nothing I have ever read. I feel like I\u2019m Alice and I\u2019ve fallen into Wonderland. Nothing makes sense, but I know there\u2019s something grand and profound about the whole experience.<\/p>\n
More than just the way he structures his novels, Kundera is an expert at using his stories and characters to capture elements of the human experience I\u2019d never thought about before, but that ring completely true. My favorite and most highly recommended one of his novels is Immortality. It\u2019s a book that literally changed my life<\/a> and how I view the world. <\/p>\n I know that no matter how hard I try, I\u2019ll never be able to write anything nearly as triumphant as a Milan Kundera novel, but realizing this fact only inspires me to write even more.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what great authors do. They exceed what you thought were the limits of artistic possibility and move you to emulate them at the same time.<\/p>\n Who is that author for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a simple question for my fellow authors to ponder today: What author(s) do you aspire to write like but know that you could never come close to matching? That\u2019s not to say, who is your favorite author(s). Rather, who is it that inspires you especially because they are so great that they could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2522,2699,83,80,2848,2700,2521,2698],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-alice-in-wonderland","tag-authors","tag-immortality","tag-milan-kundera","tag-novel","tag-the-human-experience","tag-wonderland","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}