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-	[[Image:Edgar Allan Poe.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[1848]]]]	+	#REDIRECT [[Literature]]
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-	"If, as it appears to me, a book is [[communication]], the [[author]] is only one link in a unity of different [[Reading (process) |reading]]s." --[[Georges Bataille]] from his essay "[[On Nietzsche|Sur Nietzsche]]". --tr. unidentified	+
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-	"[[Women's writing (literary category)|Women were often the first professional writer]]s and as [[Nina Baym]] and [[Resa Dudovitz]] have ascertained, bestsellers have often been written by women writers. Yet women they have been [[patriarchally]] [[Social invisibility|erased]] from [[literary histories]].	+
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-	Leslie Fiedler has remarked in "[[Literature and Lucre]]" (1981) that "the [[struggle of High Art and Low]] is, moreover, a [[battle of the sexes]].""--Sholem Stein	+
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-	[[Image:Charles Baudelaire.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat]] (ca. [[1863]])]]	+
-	[[Image:The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[The Poor Poet]]'' (1839) is a painting by [[Carl Spitzweg]]]]	+
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-	The term '''''writer''''' can apply to anyone who creates a [[written work]], but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using [[language]] to portray ideas and images, whether producing [[fiction]] or [[non-fiction]].	+
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-	A writer may compose in many different forms, including (but certainly not limited to) [[poetry]], [[prose]], or [[music]]. Accordingly, a writer in specialist mode may rank as a [[poet]], [[novelist]], [[composer]], [[lyricist]], [[playwright]], [[mythographer]], [[journalist]], [[film]] [[scriptwriter]], etc. (See also: [[creative writing]], [[technical writer|technical writing]] and [[academic]] papers.)	+
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-	Writers' output frequently contributes to the [[cultural]] content of a [[society]], and that society may value its writerly [[corpus]] -- or [[literature]] -- as an [[art]] much like the visual arts (see: [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[photography]]), [[music]], [[craft]] and [[performance art]] (see: [[drama]], [[theatre]], [[opera]], [[Musical theater|musical]]).	+
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-	==Best-selling fiction authors==	+
-	:''[[List of best-selling books]]''	+
-	Among '''[[best-selling]] [[fiction]] authors''' to date include [[Miguel de Cervantes]], [[Alexandre Dumas, père]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Jane Austen]], [[Jack Higgins]] and [[Leon Uris]]. But no exact figure could be found, although there are indications that they too have more than 100 million copies of their work in print.	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	*[[Author]]	+
-	*[[Copywriter]]	+
-	*[[Cult fiction]]	+
-	*[[Ghostwriter]]	+
-	*[[Hack writer]]	+
-	*[[List of women writers]]	+
-	*[[Lists of writers]]	+
-	*[[Physician writer]]	+
-	*[[Professional writing]]	+
-	*[[Style guide]]	+
-	*[[Writer's voice]]	+
-	*[[Writing]]	+
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-	== See also ==	+
-	*[[Jahsonic's literary canon]]	+
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