/lit/ - Literature

>what?

what's over

>>12814210
>>12814215
t. hasn't hit 25

>>12814210
>>12814215
>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Strindberg was 22 when The Outlaw was published
>Ibsen was 22 when Catiline was published
>Milan Kundera was 24 when Man: A Wide Garden was published
>Adam Thirwell was 24 when Politics was published
>Ned Beaumann was 25 when Boxer, Beetle was published
>Norman Mailer was 25 when The Naked and the Dead was published
>Eleanor Catton was 22 when The Rehearsal was published
>Robert Walser was 23 when Schneewittchen was published
>Noah Cicero was 23 when The Human War was published
>Jorge Luis Borges was 24 when Fervor de Buenos Aires was published
>Tolstoy was 24 when Childhood was published
>Johan Harstad was 23 when Amublance was published
>Kim Insuk was 20 when Bloodline was published
>Evelyn Waugh was 25 when Decline and Fall was published

>>12814224
At least Pynchon was 26 when V. was published

It's over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGs3DnQt7cQ

>>12814224
>anon was 26 when ___ was published

there. you can make your own path

>>12814224
Good for them I guess

>>12814224
De Lampedusa was at 60 when The Leopard got published.

im 24, I turn 25 in a few months.

got an audition with the CSSD (acting school in London) on Monday.

it's not over till its over. plenty of people start later in life. I felt finished when I was 24. not because I was 24, but because I was close to 25. im aware im only growing older, but I still feel optimistic, I feel young, I feel I have time/opportunity on my side.

take your finger out of your ass, stop feeling sorry for yourself and start doing shit.

Leonard Cohen didn't start writing songs till he was 33.

>>12814204
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

>>12814210
t. Richard Nixon

>>12814224
>Burroughs was 40 when Junky was published
>Mark Twain was 41 when Tom Sawyer was publihed
>Henry Miller was 44 when Tropic of Cancer was published
>Tolkien was 45 when Tolkien was published
>Bram Stoker was 43 when The Snake's Pass was published
>Raymond Chandler was 51 when The Big Sleep was published
>Richard Adams was 52 when Watership Down was published
>Daniel Defoe was 59 when Robinson Crusoe was published
>Toni Morrison was 40 when The Bluest Eye was published
>Anthony Burgess was 39 when Time for a Tiger was published
>George Eliot was 40 when Adam Bede was published
>Charles Bukowski had published a handful of short stores in his 20s and published his first novel (Post Office) when he was 51
>Wallace Stevens published his first collection of poetry when he was 44