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6621813 No.6621813 [Reply] [Original]

Can someone be a great writer without having anything to say?

People talk about art being a way of expressing yourself, but what if someone has nothing to express?

>> No.6621816

>>6621813
Let me ask you a question.
If you have nothing to say or express, what in the world would you write about?

>> No.6621819

>>6621816
ambiguously reinterpret predecessors

>> No.6621821

read the book of disquiet op

>> No.6621824

>>6621819
To what end?

>> No.6622311

>>6621819
you're not gonna write anything

>> No.6622350

>>6621813

If you have nothing to express you have nothing to invoke - thus, write something useful like an instruction manual on how to be an asshole.

>> No.6622367

>>6621813
Vladimir Nabokov = famous writer, writes about basically nothing. Then again he was an amazingly skilled writer who spoke like 8 languages and could see words in colours. If you wanna make your novel about going to the shop and having an inner debate about whether to buy normal or skimmed milk, you better be good at writing. Although you're on 4chan therefore probably an autist, do something sciencey ya wannabe

>> No.6622530

>Can someone be a great writer without having anything to say?

Have you ever read Anne Radcliffe? Brilliant writer whose work is distanced enough from reality to provide commentary on absolutely nothing, yet whose work is entrancing as all hell.

>> No.6622539
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6622539

write about solipsistic mind

>> No.6622547
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6622547

bamboozle the reader

>> No.6623571

Who painted this?

>> No.6623674

>>6623571
Pierre August Cot. I really like it too

>> No.6624350

>>6621813
>>6621813
no, they can't.

>> No.6625735

>>6623571
do you niggers not know how to "google image search"?!!! it is so easy

>> No.6625743

>>6623674
It's very nice

>>6621813
I don't think so.

>> No.6626159

Non-fiction. Duh. I just read an excellent work about the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The story is as remarkable and interesting as it is true, and it was voiced by fascinating people that were actually there and lived it. The author involved as little of himself as possible and worked only to tell the truth of what happened to the best of his ability.

>> No.6626175

>>6621813
Get out of the metaphysical closure, anon. Plato and the Greeks were the first to bastardize language into communication, movement of information. Read Heidegger and learn that language is constitutive of our being, that "language is the house of Being."

>> No.6626219

You can write something with good imagery etc. that is enjoyable and well-written without having any deeper meaning, but people will interpret it as either having some meaning or trying to have some meaning and failing.