Doctor Seuss (my most favorite author) has the most interesting and distinguished writing process of any author I have read into. His use of rhyme maintains a constant and clear flow of sentences. Example:
I do not like
green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
Would you like them in a house?
Would you like them with a mouse?
As a child, those were my favorite verses. The rhyme scheme kept me entertained as well as the sentences growing more and more by the line. The way Doctor Seuss wrote his books stood out because I do not recall reading any other book that followed the same pattern of rhyme scheme or hold any characters as different and interesting as Doctor Seuss did. Doctor Seuss's writings also had hidden meanings in them. If you read his books enough, you will see that "The Sneetches" was about racial equality, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was about materialism and consumerism of Christmas Season, "The Butter Battle Book" was about the arms race, and "Horton Hears a Who" was about anti-isolationism. Doctor Seuss even once stated that Yertle the turtle was Adolf Hitler.
Doctor Seuss's writings weren't always perfect to him. Unlike most any writer, Doctor Seuss would accept money for his writing after he was finished instead of before he finished. He would throw out about 95% of his work until he decided on a theme for the book he would be writing; he was a true perfectionist.
From his first writings to his last, Doctor Seuss was and will always be one of the greatest writers the world has ever seen. He is the interesting and most famous author to me, and will always be.
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