/lit/ - Literature

Watership Down
Fathers and Sons
Anna Karenina
All the Pretty Horses
The Idiot

>tfw subconsciously sucking off Russian realism

3 years into an English Lit degree here

It's helped me read things I wouldn't have on my own and see things I have read in an entirely new light.

I'm going into teaching and just writing on the side (t b h I think anyone who wants to write these days needs an unrelated job (unless you're typing technical manuals 8 hours a day) and life experience is essential for any great writer) but I can honestly say that studying the greats and hearing people who have been studying this stuff for 15-50 years critically analysing them 5 days a week has improved my writing immeasurably.

Would I recommend it to everyone who wants to be a writer? No, I'm sure certain people can get just as much out of self-study and disciplined writing every day as they would out of an English degree. It has helped me though and I'd recommend it if you're genuinely interested in literature and the history of it.