A celebrated writer

"Here it is interesting to remark that if at the present time you were to ask
any of the beings there about this writer, he would certainly recognize his
name and speak of him as an extraordinary being.
"But if you went on to ask what he had written, it would turn out that most
of them, if of course they confessed the truth, had never read a single one of
his books.

"All the same they would talk about him and discuss him, and splutteringly
insist that he was a being with an unparalleled mind and a phenomenal
knowledge of the psyche of the beings dwelling on the planet Earth."

- G. I. Gurdjieff "Beelzebub's tales to his grandson"