/lit/ - Literature

>What we call “business books” is an eliminative category invented by bookstores for writings that have no depth, no style, no empirical rigor, and no linguistic sophistication.

>Just like poets and artists, bureaucrats are born, not made; it takes normal humans extraordinary effort to keep attention on to keep attention on such boring tasks.

>The costs of specialization: architects build to impress other architects; models are thin to impress other models; academics write to impress other academics; filmmakers try to impress other filmmakers; painters impress art dealers; but authors who write to impress book editors tend to fail.

>It is a waste of emotions to answer critics; better to stay in print long after they are dead.

>I can predict when an author is about to plagiarize me, and poorly so when he writes that Taleb “popularized” the theory of Black Swan events.

>Newspaper readers exposed to real prose are like deaf persons at a Puccini opera: they may like a thing or two while wondering, “what’s the point?”

>Some books cannot be summarized (real literature, poetry); some can be compressed to about ten pages; the majority to zero pages.

>The exponential information age is like a verbally incontinent person: he talks more and more as fewer and fewer people listen.

>What we call fiction is, when you look deep, much less fictional than nonfiction; but it is usually less imaginative.

>It’s much harder to write a book review for a book you’ve read than for a book you haven’t read.

>Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.

>Today, we mostly face the choice between those who write clearly about a subject they don’t understand and those who write poorly about a subject they don’t understand.

>The information-rich Dark Ages: in 2010, 600,000 books were published, just in English, with few memorable quotes. Circa AD zero, a handful of books were written. In spite of the few that survived, there are loads of quotes.

>In the past, most were ignorant, one in a thousand were refined enough to talk to. Today, literacy is higher, but thanks to progress, the media, and finance, only one in ten thousand.

>We are better at (involuntarily) doing out of the box than (voluntarily) thinking out of the box.

>Half of suckerhood is not realizing that what you don’t like might be loved by someone else (hence by you, later), and the reverse.

>It is much less dangerous to think like a man of action than to act like a man of thought.

>Literature comes alive when covering up vices, defects, weaknesses, and confusions; it dies with every trace of preaching.

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Based

I’m sorry, I don’t speak Arabic. Could someone translate for me?

>Shakespeare is journalism
???

>>16488493
>No author should be considered as having failed until he starts teaching others about writing.
Nabokov=failure

>>16488771
>He doesn't know

>>16488798
WHO?

>>16488888
Based Maestro poster
Chequeado

Is it a requirement to wear a black turtle neck if you consider yourself an intellectual?

>>16488888
That means Cervantes is also journalism.

>>16488888

>>16488987
Yes.

>>16489000
Cervantes is what they call Philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ogZzp_ihc

>>16489676
goddamnit. he spits fire. I thought you guys were memeing. BASED.

>>16489718
You know the riddle

https://b-ok.lat/book/5793157/30281e

>>16488493
>Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
reductive
>Most people write so they can remember things; I write to forget.
t. drunk millenial girl
>What they call philosophy I call literature
pic related
>Writers are remembered for their best work, politicians for their worst mistakes, and businessmen are almost never remembered.
pretty obviously not true, lovecraft is remembered for his nigger cat as just one example
>Critics may appear to blame the author for not writing the book they wanted to read; but in truth they are blaming him for writing the book they wanted, but were unable, to write.
cope
>Literature is not about promoting qualities, rather, airbrushing (your) defects.
i'll leave it off here, first good thing quoted

>>16489676
>that video where he destroys Montaigne

Someone stop this madman

>>16488888
Chequeado y Maetropileado, CHAD absoluto de toda la literatura. La paz esté con él y que todos sus seguidores se den cuenta que la Crítica ya está en libgen.

>>16488493
>>Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
Everyone notices man. Every fucking book is a series of repetitions and it's fucking annoying.

>>16490333
especially in taleb's case