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Has a painter, musician, or filmmaker ever written a literary masterpiece?

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>>18263830
A composer and scene-painter wrote many of them.

>> No.18263855

>>18263830
There are plenty of former artists in other mediums who went on to write good books. Ishiguro played and wrote music before he wrote books.

>> No.18263864

>>18263830
Yeah there's autobiographies for like every musician lmao read a book

>> No.18263874

Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan wrote a few pretty good poetry books.

>> No.18263887

William Blake

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>>18263830
>films

>> No.18264098

>>18263830
Elia Kazan wrote a pretty good book "The Arrangement" and then he turned it into a really really shitty movie.

>> No.18264099

Yung Lean wrote the greatest short stories since Borges. But they were lost when he got hospitalized.

>> No.18264218

Faulkner wrote a couple of movie scripts

>> No.18264239

>>18263830
King David, musician who wrote the Book of Psalms