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ITT: Writers talking about writers.

Post some quotes.

‎"Had I ever to spend a night in a haunted house, I should have felt secure with Williams in my company; he was somehow protected from evil, and was himself a protection... To him the supernatural was natural, and the natural was also supernatural. . ." T.S. Eliot on Charles Williams

>> No.1654706

"Cooper is a faggot." - Mark Twain

>> No.1654727

>"There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject’s sake, and those who write for writing’s sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money. They think in order to write, and they may be recognised by their spinning out their thoughts to the greatest possible length, and also by the way they work out their thoughts, which are half-true, perverse, forced, and vacillating; then also by their love of evasion, so that they may seem what they are not; and this is why their writing is lacking in definiteness and clearness."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, telling it like it is

>> No.1654734

>>1654727

Schopenhauer on Derrida pheraps

>> No.1654741

"There are you, nihilist!" Nietzsche, on Flaubert.
"Overrated scrub" Molière, on Shakespeare.
"why.jpg" Stephen King on Stephenie Meyer

>> No.1654758

>Cormac McCarthy? "Horrible," he says, looking at Blood Meridian. "This is probably the most pulpy, overwrought, melodramatic cowboy vs. Indians story ever written."

>Even hearing a passage about a sunset in which "the mountains in their blue islands stood footless in the void like floating temples" doesn't sway him.

>Sparks' favorite tale of youth? "I think A Walk to Remember," he says, citing his own novel. "That's my version of a coming-of-age." He pauses and adds: "You have to say To Kill a Mockingbird is an all-time classic."

>Any he thinks are overrated?

>"I don't like to say bad things about others."

>Except McCarthy? "He deserves it," Spark says with a laugh.

>Asked what he likes in his own genre, Sparks replies: "There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do."

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>>1654734

>> No.1654774

Well, everything in On the Road, and basically all that said was that Allen Ginsberg seems like such a fucking cunt.

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I'm currently learning French(in college), and love it.
I took three years of it in high school but when you get
here its more rapid fire so I've learned a lot more than
I did, and since the teacher is so good its all being
absorbed well I think.

>> No.1655037

>>1654758
still hilarious

dude's the thomas kinkade of writing, in every way