If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be?
Sorry, but I can’t resist making this like asking the genie from the bottle for more wishes with your one wish. So, I’d say to Kurt Vonnegut, “Why don’t we chat over coffee/lunch/dinner?”
Of course, like the genie, he may well laugh and say no. But I’d sure hope not.
Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
I'd ask Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time) deceased with 11 of 12 books finished if Moiraine Damodred is going to come back from the otherside and marry Rand 'al Thor and live happily ever after OR I'd ask Robert Heinlein if he realized he'd lost it and only his name sold his final books? IMHO his greatest work was Time Enough for Love BUT his commencement address to the USNA was also brilliant.