Yuval Harari, Peter Hessler, John Steinbeck, Henry Thoreau, Charles Dickens, Saifedean Ammous, Alexandar Solzhenitzyn, The Existentialists and too many more to recall them all this morning before work. 
Just time to drink a coffee and hang up my holster.

> Good writing often leaves you an outcast, a scapegoat, but also might make some people think again about the biases and prejudices that we all carry and that blind us to the full truth that is just too bright and strong for many to even glimpse

Who are some of the writers who have done this for you?

billytheked

Good writing provokes others to think differently by looking at things differently to how they are accustomed.

It does not tell them this is how it is but suggests it might be...

Good writing often leaves you an outcast, a scapegoat, but also might make some people think again about the biases and prejudices that we all carry and that blind us to the full truth that is just too bright and strong for many to even glimpse.

the_stacker_muse

Writing is hostile

Good writing provokes others to think differently by looking at things differently to how they are accustomed.
It does not tell them this is how it is but suggests it might be...
Good writing often leaves you an outcast, a scapegoat, but also might make some people think again about the biases and prejudices that we all carry and that blind us to the full truth that is just too bright and strong for many to even glimpse.
Write good shit and be damned.