Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

If you could have a conversation with any writer of fiction, past or present who would it be and what would it be about?

I would like to visit with Ernest Hemingway and discuss the iceberg concept with him. :3

I want to ask Lovecraft what he thought about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop

Lovecraft: They stole my word! lol

I'd hang with Edgar Allan Poe, cuz he got the coke hookup, yo!

Madeleine L'Engle because I'd love to talk to her about writing MG and YA novels.

I just realised that joke Josh. I am so slow. Lol

Terry Brooks (on his writing style, and what he feels makes readers love the Shannara Family legacy so much. Johanna Lindsey, and the same. Beverly Jenkins, Will F. Jenkins, and W.W. Jacobs, Katherine Stone and Sandra Brown, just about their writing technique and how they are inspired to write the stories that they do.

Homer. I'd enjoy hearing reading performance tips.

F. Paul Wilson has been writing books at such a frantic and imaginative pace for so many years that I think talking to him would be great fun and very educational from a writing standpoint.

Also Karin Slaughter, because she flat scares me.

And Chelsea Cain, because she write such horrific books with such a gleeful tone that I think she would be too cool to talk to.

Oh! And James Rollins, I've greatly enjoyed all of his books, I like the fact he lives in Lake Tahoe, appreciate the fact he's a veterinarian who still volunteers to help animals, and know that he likes a whole lot of adventurous activities like cave exploration, deep water diving, and explorative travel, so I imagine a conversation with him would be very interesting.

A more "modern" choice would be Hawthorne. I'd ask about marvelous ambiguity those short stories.

So many. Mark Twain probably tops my list though.

Phillip K Dick just because it would be the most random and crazy interview.