/lit/ - Literature

write a bunch of garbage

>>19597354
It's 100% impossible to write more than you've read. For books they can at best break even unless they dictated a novel by voice but if you count audiobooks then still impossible

>>19597354
Based Garth Marenghi appreciator

>>19597354
if you don't read a lot, easy?

>>19597421
You read every book you write and you have to learn to read

>>19597425
>implying I read that shit

>>19597354
I think it might be possible that Plato wrote more than he read. There were few books to read and he wrote a lot.
Same applies for a lot of the first writers, actually.

>>19597354
>I'm a one track lover

>>19597401
This.

This but unironically

>>19597354
in another episode Garth claims to have written 436 books. With that info, definitely possible

>>19598103
I won't put in semicolons, this ain't Joyce

>"You and he were ...
> ...buddies, weren't you"
Marenghi does it again, how can other authors even compete?

>>19597354
Karl Pilkington has legitimately written more books than he's read.

>>19599159
>taking the bait that karl is actually dumb

also didn't he say he used to read all kinds of shit about radios when he was a kid and they had those walkie talkies around the neighborhood

>>19597425
It doesn't count if you read a book you wrote yourself. And most people learn to read with short kids stories, not full books.

>>19597354

My father is a published writer, having written a niche hobbyist book, a children's book, and a brief transportation history. Once, about 20 years ago, he had "a novel in him" and took 18 months to write it. Not finding a publisher for that one, he was content that he had been through the creative process, and stuck it in a drawer.

He likes to boast that the last time he read a book-length work of fiction was when he read Charlotte's Web in grade school.

>>19599231
I didn't say he was dumb, only that he didn't read. The vast majority of people stop reading books after they finish secondary school. Even Ricky admits he hates reading books.

>>19597425
Why are you being intentionally retarded?

>>19599508
"even ricky"
he's 10x dumber than pilkington so i don't know why you're framing that like it should be surprising

He's a parody of Stephen King, of whom that is probably true.

>>19597354
alreadys been mentioned but unironically

>>19597354
"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's fucked more than they've pissed."


Is this actually possible?

>>19597354
I HATE those people

>>19597595
We probably just don't have the books he would have read. There a bunch of books referenced in known works that have never been found.
>>19597354
>is it possible?
Unfortunately, yes.

>>19597425
>You read every book you write

You don't really have to, especially if you are using a keyboard. Think about it

Do you honestly think any of the normies that have "made it" in any artform have consumed more than they produced? No!
They are blissfully unaware of anything that has ever preceded

>>19601784
it's amazing that someone has the audacity to demand another post their stance, opinion or belief on something publicly. it's even more amazing that King replied. what a little bitch

>>19599359
Cope

I've heard that joke about Wayne Rooney. He's "written" at least two autobiographies and quite possibly read zero books

>>19597354
i love this quote, it sounds clever at first... then on a second thought it sounds the height of retardation