Respected Writers Who Were Actually Terrible People

Which of these writers shocked you with their antics?

Sounds more like Hemingway was trolling the KGB, wasting their time and giving them nothing.

In México we actually eat grasshoppers, so it makes perfect sense that Roald would write that and there's no need to take it as something offensive.

Honestly I don’t think hunter s thompson was living in the same reality as the rest of us.

It’s a good thing I never actually treat an artist’s work as being them literally. I don’t idolize an artist because of their work. I prefer to like the works, not the person. Example, I prefer to like pieces of music, not idolize the people making it.

It can be argued that good writers have one thing in common: they hate humanity.

Jack Nicholson being scared of another human being is weird since he plays the crazy scary one

“Roald Dahl, author of James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and The BFG” forgetting something?

“Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.”

Can’t write jokes - reference rick and morty

I hate that I clicked this

I wonder when they will start accusing Willaim Shakespear and Charles Dickens for The Merchant of Venice and Christmas Carol, respectively?

Jack London, was not racist. Many of London's short stories are noted for their empathetic portrayal of Mexican, Asian, and Hawaiian characters. In her Russo-Japanese War correspondence, as well as her unfinished novel "Cherry", she shows great admiration for Japanese customs and capabilities.

OK. Orwell is a bad guy for outing Soviets and Hemingway is another bad guy for working for them. This is a $hit video.

Actually Dahl has been proven strict and many angry problems after the war and I look at ever interview of Dahl and he was not at all racist he got annoyed in the interview you allowed though cause the reporter kept interrupting him Edit: all the stuff he said was written by just random people

With great artistic talent also comes a lot of demons and mental instability, we can commend them for their works and also accept for the completely complicated and flawed individuals that they are. We can praise their work while condemning their behavior.

I think it is very important to distinguish the artist from their art. For example, H.P. Lovecraft was apparently a racist, homophobic xenophobe (and unlike a certain subset of people I am using those terms in their ORIGINAL definition) but Call of Cthulhu is still one of my personal favorite books to read every Halloween despite the fact that as a black bisexual woman he probably would not have liked me very much. Just because an artist harbors an opinion you personally disagree with or has done something questionable does not mean their work is automatically shit.

I’m not surprised about Salinger. Catcher In The Rye has a ton of predatory undertones, from both perspectives. Clearly it was on his mind.

I think you should add Harlan Ellison to this list. I met him one time and he walked into a room full of people and insulted my appearance forr no reason at all.

Lmao, I don't think Hunter S. Thompson ever claimed to be a good guy.