/lit/ - Literature

74 years of Europeans trying too hard

Does anyone else get as mad as I do about writers who try to act all "writery?" For example, whenever I see le Norweigen Proust in a perfect pose with a very thoughtful face, smoking cigarettes, I want to slap the bitch. I get it. You fucking write. Congratulations. It's like they're trying so hard to look like what a writer is supposed to be to get pats on the back from stupid non-readers. Also, it feels like an attempt to make up for literary quality by adopting the identity of someone who people would assume to be able to write good books. I'm probably reading into this a little too much, but does anyone else get this autistic about this shit? Also, I love you Tommy, but grow the fuck up and talk to the media at least once before you die. You're not a fucking mystical wise man, okay, so stop trying to be one. Maybe it's just that I hate the whole way that writers are portrayed in the media and the way that some of them quite shamelessly buy into this portrayal.