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10421306 No.10421306 [Reply] [Original]

Daily reminder that if you aren't published by the age of 25 (twenty-five) you will NEVER be patrician and your work will NEVER be canon.

>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

>> No.10421313

>>10421306
books are for fucking nerds with no real career goals in life. if you aren't writing because it's what you live and breathe, just don't.

>> No.10421363

>>10421313
>writing is muh life! *tips fedora*

lmao kys

>> No.10421372

[graph of successful writers who never even considered picking up a pen/typewriter/word processor until they were well over 40 and/or near retirement]

>> No.10421381

Wallace Stevens published Harmonium at 44. Go fuck yourself. I'm gonna go work for an insurance agency.

>> No.10421382

>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
Wow, seriously? For an adult to write something this angsty is pretty pathetic.

>> No.10421387
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10421387

>>10421306
>tfw on track for publication at 23

>> No.10421427

Gaddis published at 35

sage

>> No.10421467

Hey Warosuchan could you quit spamming this particular thread please? It's just garbage and isn't a kind thing to do.

>> No.10421684

>>10421427
ye but then again, he debuted with a 500k words long pomo tome. You think he'd wait till 35 if he wanted his first work to be a novella?

>> No.10421691

>>10421467
twenty-five

>> No.10421701

>>10421306
>reading things written by people under 30

No thanks, not interesting in juvenilia.

>> No.10421703

>>10421691
It's cute that you are spamming the board with pastas written by other people, and to be honest I imagine you aren't in a good place mentally which is why you spend so much time doing that. I honestly wish you well, but I would discourage carrying on this way as the reward, as you are perhaps becoming aware already despite the excitement this attention brings, really are meaningless and ultimately serve as a negative influence on the board, its users and also yourself. Good luck dude.

>> No.10421704

>>10421701
>not reading Rimbaud and Keats

P L E B E

>> No.10421707

>>10421703
>Luna Miguel was 22 when Bluebird and Other Tattoos was published
>Luna Miguel was 23 when La tumba del marinero was published
>Nathaniel Hawthorne was 24 when Fanshawe was published
>Masuji Ibuse was 25 when Yu Hei was published
>Philip Pullman was 25 when The Haunted Storm was published
>Alice Hoffman was 25 when Property Of was published
>Aaron Sorking was 24 when Removing All Doubt was published
>Sergei Yesenin was 25 when The Scarlet of the Dawn was published

>> No.10421717

>>10421707
We can all use Warosu and act unpleasant towards others. I just hope you possess sufficient self-awareness that will allow you to realize what a waste of time your second-hand spamming represents.

>> No.10421718

>>10421306
>all this juvenilia
>canon
>all these lit freshman memes and literally whos
>canon
Weak and boring bait.

>> No.10421723

>>10421704
It's exceptions that you're naming here. Most writers don't do their best work in their 20s. That's even more accentuated in the present day, where 20-somethings are stuck in a perpetual teenagehood.

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>>10421717
>Breece Pancake was 24 when Trilobites was published

>> No.10422034

Lots of people start publishing books young and stop at 40. If I were a writer, which I'm not, I would rather publish my first book at 35 and publish a book every couple of years until I was 80 then publish 3 books in my early twenties and then stop. See Zachary German and hundreds of others.

>> No.10422517

>>10421701
>pieces of acclaimed art written by precocious greats whose genius was beginning to show
>juvenilia
>anon on 4chun claims he can simply be "not interested" in such works