The experimental writer, then, is simply following the storys commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, theres the writer who cant face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, theres the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him
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Thomas Ligotti was American horror author. Thomas Ligotti is an American horror author, lay philosopher, and writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of philosophical horror, often formed into short stories and novellas in the tradition of gothic fiction. Read more on Wikipedia →