Unbelievably, I now have an official creative writing student and I am starting to compile a list of readings, in an attempt to begin answering the question, who and what taught me to write my sentences?
Essay, chronicle, memoir
♦ Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo
♦ Joan Didion
♦ Mariano José de Larra
♦ Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals and other essays
♦ Steen Steensen Blicher, Diary of a Parish Clerk and other stories
The 17th century conceit
♦ Francisco de Quevedo, Amor constante más allá de la muerte (this edition is bilingual, and there are more poems with translations on this site)
♦ John Donne, A Nocturnall Upon St. Lucie’s Day, Which Is the Shortest Day (and it would be worth reading more of Donne, including the Meditations)
♦ Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Precise prose fiction
♦ Albert Camus, The Stranger (not for the content, but for the sentences, landscape, light; for short sentences Camus is an infinitely better model than Hemingway)
♦ Alejo Carpentier, Voyage to the Source and The Kingdom of This World
♦ Julio Cortázar, “La isla al mediodía”
♦ Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales and later stories
Poetry
♦ Arcipreste de Hita, Libro de Buen Amor
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
De chez moi: “I like working in company but not the “accountability” concept that seems to be so helpful for the majority — that concept seems to alienate me from work. I am so acculturated to duty to others and so allergic to it that “accountability” to a group about a project I have backfires really badly … although working in group without using that concept is good.”
I think I have used the “accountability” term, but I mean something more like working in a group, I think, because I tend to get rebellious about “accountabilty.” Others are not the boss of me. I even rebel against myself. So it is more important, or useful, or something, to figure out how to inhabit the work, to make it an organic process, not imposed. I need to be more aware of that, and to think more about replenishment and working from a whole, full self, not just whipping myself through tasks.
Inhabiting as opposed to whipping oneself through tasks — yes ! ! !
Need also Libro de buen amor here.
Writing prompt question: a favorite author or work of literature in three sentences.
That’s a really good assignment, not just for creative writing!
O good. List must also include Sarmiento and Larra.