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In one of his interviews, when asked about his advice to aspiring writers, Junot Diaz said that it would be more valuable to go out and live in the world for three years than to write for three years.

To what extent is this true? Is life experience more valuable to a person's writing than the honing of their craft?

Obviously, a balance is necessary, but what do you guys think?

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A tiny chat
is a Tiny chat
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tinychat / 4chanlit

Log in as a member of the lost memeration, today.

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i was just now struck by what could only be described as a hard-on from hell for prose, would you be so kind and make me ejaculate?

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What's Ligotti's best story?

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I listen to audiobooks while in bed since I have problems falling asleep. Can you recommend some audiobooks that would work well for this, combination of fitting book and author with a pleasant voice?

Up until now I used works of Lovecraft read by Wayne June. It was amazing, the stories are simple and very atmospheric and Wayne has an amazing deep voice that just makes it feel like he's reading me a bedtime story.

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Ok guys...Please don't crucify me, I don't have a lot of info but if anyone could help me I'd appreciate it. I heard about this (fairly well known I think) book where the main character is talking to a psychiatrist but I don't think you find that until maybe a third of the book is over. The character is somewhat racist and self contradicting and I heard it's pretty funny in a twisted way which is why I wanna read it. Sorry that's all I remember, any help would be appreciated. Pic unrelated

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>'I will tell you what Jews are like. Once, in the early months of the war, we were on the march, and we had halted at a village for the night. A horrible old Jew, with a red beard like Judas Iscariot, came sneaking up to my billet. I asked him what he wanted. "Your honour," he said, "I have brought a girl for you, a beautiful young girl only seventeen. It will only be fifty francs." "Thank you," I said, "you can take her away again. I don't want to catch any diseases." "Diseases!" cried the Jew, "Mais, monsieur le capitaine, there's no fear of that. It's my own daughter!" That is the Jewish national character for you.

>'Have I ever told you, mon ami, that in the old Russian Army it was considered bad form to spit on a Jew? Yes, we thought a Russian officer's spittle was too precious to be wasted on Jews...' etc. etc.

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), By George Orwell (Chapter 6)

>Also, I sometimes worked on a Sunday, for which, though I did not know it, I was entitled to an extra twenty-five francs. The doorkeeper never paid me this either, and so made away with another seventy-five francs. I only realized during my last week that I was being cheated, and, as I could prove nothing, only twenty-five francs were refunded. The doorkeeper played similar tricks on any employee who was fool enough to be taken in. He called himself a Greek, but in reality he was an Armenian. After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb 'Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian.'

(Chapter 13)

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Are all Chileans this degenerate?

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So what do you guys think of 11.22.63 . The hulu series trailer looked promising but I've never been the biggest fan of Stephen King. My favorite from him is probably , the girl who loved Tom Gordon. Does /lit/ recommend picking it up ?

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A few friends of mine recommended I read the secret life of saeed the pessoptimist. I finished it and couldn't really make sense of what was going on with saeed, aside from his being a surviving coward to every other character's brave martyrdom. Am I missing something?

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What's your novel about, anon? I promise I won't steal your idea.

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any good books on hermeneutics?

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Care to recommend some homocore, /lit/? Already read confessions of a mask and ride the tiger.

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>"Who recommends you all these books, anon?"
>fellow posters on 4ch- uh uh i mean a few friends of mine
>"Well they must be really smart"

thanks /lit/

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I can't be the only one here that has this constant worry when reading, that I don't understand either the book, or the meaning of the book.

For example, recently I finished two books. For whom the bells toll, and the catcher in the rye. Hemingways book was alright, when I finished it I felt kinda confused. Was the moral of the book self-sacrifice, duty over love, or doing evil for the greater good? All of them, none of them? As for the Catcher in the Rye, I found it to be a quite cozy commentary on teenager angst.

Anyways, I guess I'm asking is if I'm just retarded or I'm missing something.