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Are writers inherently eccentric?

>> No.12562623

>>12562612
Artists often are. Nothing inherent about it though

>> No.12562660

>>12562612
Eccentricity correlates with esotericism. Stephen King just gives voice to dark fantasies normal people have, or that they can comprehend with only a moderate amount of disgust, because he is a "pretty normal guy." Peter Sotos is a fucking weirdo, and no amount of technique is going to polish that coal urchin into anything remotely fit for mass consumption.

>> No.12562661

>>12562623
but it's entirely inherent.
whether someone is an artist is due a circumstance of their birth

>> No.12562664

>>12562612
I'm eccentric AMA

>> No.12562665

>>12562660
King is anything but normal. He's the Maine Mud Man. Look at him. He ain't right.

>> No.12562677

>>12562661
low effort bait

>> No.12562685

>>12562677
it happens to be true

>> No.12562686

>>12562661
Some people like their art dry or hacky and tend to not like the inventive eccentrics art.

>> No.12562693

>>12562665
He's slightly askew. The blowjob scene in "It" and the library rape scene in "Four Past Midnight" are examples of the most horrifying things he can produce, and they both hinge on a basically corrupt understanding of the feminine that I suspect most American men harbor to some degree. Again, that's why he's popular. A little more off than most, not so much so that his work is being confiscated as child porn like P.U.R.E. or banned for obscenity like Ulysses.

>> No.12562694

>>12562685
again

>> No.12562698

>>12562623
FUCK OFF! Just fucking die already I hate you so much, theif of joy, soiler of moods, devestator of happiness just fucking KYS

>> No.12562722

>>12562698
Take the chillpill, anon.

>> No.12562757
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12562757

>>12562698
Why does this rob you of joy though?

>> No.12562812

>>12562612
Most people are eccentric if you get to know them. Writers just have good reason to display it

>> No.12562830

>>12562686
dry and hacky can be just as eccentric anyway

>> No.12564189

>>12562612
Naw. Dickens was a pretty normal guy. Orwell too.

>> No.12564211

>>12562812
eccentric is going to someones house at 3 am because you don't own a phone and wanted to tell them something and on top of that its january with frigid cold air and that does not bother you for your task. most people do that?