/lit/ - Literature

That feel when you realize that OP is the biggest faggot of all.

Seriously, for writing either you have it or you don't. Going to Harvard is not necessarily going to make you a world famous writer.

>>2583955
You're more likely to be associates or acquaintances with the biggest publishers and critics, though.

OP, I don't know whether you are trolling, delusional, or ignorant because that is demonstrably wrong in every way.

>>2583977
Then please, give me some examples of great writers who never went to a top tier uni

>>2583982
Richard Yates

I go to a top tier university. I got kicked out of the English faculty for being too confrontational. They don't give a shit about writing or greatness, its just dry academia. You're better off alone. You can do it.

>>2583982
Shakespeare

And i won't even start with the amount of latinamerican writers that never went to you so called god-tier universities.

>>2583982
Joyce.

>tfw you realise that studying in a top tier university won't make you a great writer.

the major advantage of studying lit at a university, if you want to become a writer, is the ammount of time you have on your hands...with which you can develop your craft. They're not going to teach you how to become a great writer at college for fucks sake

Albert Camus never got his phil degree yet has gotten a nobel prize in literature, and wrote one of the greatest book of all time.

>>2583982
Hemingway

bump

>>2583982
Most of them.
McCarthy never graduated.
Hemingway didn't.
Faulkner dropped out after three semesters.
Etc.

Great writers existed before the concept of a university existed.

>>2583982
I'm a great writer. I dropped out of uni after a month.

but you won't have heard of me because I'm pretty underground. however this summer I'm really going to take the literary world by storm

so should i study english at uni if I want to become a pro writer or what?

>>2585213
No. I studied English, and was fortunate enough to have scholarships covering my ass, but there's really no reason to spend the money. Anything you would do at uni you could do alone, as far as advancing as a writer, and the degree won't mean shit once reality smacks you in the face and you need to pay bills and eat and stuff.

Get some discipline, internet access, live close to a good library, and save your money.

>>2585213

>however this summer I'm really going to take the literary world by storm

I am in love with that sentence <3

>>2585209

don't be such a dumbfuck faggot. If you want to let /lit/ decide your life then you don't deserve higher education.

>>2585205
>mfw three semesters sounds like my limit.

My idol is Fitzgerald, and that nigga got his ass kicked out of Princeton big time.

>>2586587
>sorry, pic

>tfw you become an alcoholic at age 22 because most great writers were

>>2586607

>tfw you have a degree from Cambridge, *and* you're an alcoholic, and you still haven't finished that novel.