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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terath Ninir" data-source="post: 1998006" data-attributes="member: 47">We could always compare the quality of *your* writing with his and see who comes out better.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />I kid!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  I think it is intellectually dishonest to dismiss a writer as a hack.  (Not saying you're intellectually dishonest, though; just that you're falling into a failing common to English majors, whether you be one or not.)  Charles Dickens, for example, was a hack, yet is taught in every English class that can manage to fit one of his books in.You can dismiss an author like Lovecraft or, say, Arthur Conan Doyle for the quality of their writing, but to do so shows a lack of understanding of what is important in writing.  There's more to writing than writing skill, as with Tolkien.  His books are mediocre writing at best, yet who can deny his importance?No, skill at writing is not always the most important thing with an author.  The truly great artists, the ones with world-changing visions, can rise above even that.  Dickens, Doyle, Lovecraft, Tolkien: all are technical bad writers, but to deny their place in literary history is to deny reality.</blockquote>

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