Writers are queer creatures, indeed. For they live in this world with the rest of others but through imagination and thought they travel elsewhere, and they map uncharted domains of human minds, and revel in domains which are not ordinarily reachable.
Recently I read Gibran, Kafka, Dostoevsky. All these writers greatly appeal to me , and they in point of fact shaped my patterns of thinking. After going through Gibran's the prophet several times I have gone through stages of transmutations.Each reading of him gave me a different idea of the world, myself and everything we do. It gave me a different perspective. He is really a mystic.
Talking of Dostoevsky I find him deeply penetrating deeper into the realm of the human mind. And hardly any other could go so deeply, layers after layers of the mind.
Kafka is really amazing. His book the Metamorphosis is something I always read and find a different meaning in that book