Tfw the author didn't go to a tier one school

>tfw the reader didn't go to a tier one school either

;_;

>>8535335
>tfw the reader went to a tier one school but never got published

>>8535335
>Shakespeare

>>8535335
OH ITS ANOTHER EPISODE OF THE COLLEGE MATTERS MEME. I SURE LIKE THIS ONE

>>8535403
Name one good writer who didn't go to a prestigious school.

>>8535473
>"good"

Nice one. Faulkner, Cormac, idk.

>>8535491
>idk
Exactly. Get fucking destroyed.

>>8535473

name one canonical writer from a prestigious school who went AFTER Harvard/Oxford stopped having a 90+% acceptance rate

>>8535513
When did they ever have an acceptance rate that high?

>>8535473
Cervantez

>>8535473
Bolaño, Mo Yan, Welsh, Papini, this is just what it came into my mind, I can keep going.

>>8535491
>corncobbers

>>8535473
Saramago, Yeats, Hemingway, and George Bernard Shaw all won the Nobel Prize without ever attending university. Perec was a genius and never did either.

Faulkner another Nobel laureate, flunked out of a mediocre state school with an acceptance rate of around 80%. So did Dreiser

>>8535629
nigga Mo Yan went to a PLA school and then got a Masters at Beijing Normal. That's the US equivalent of going to a West Point/RISD hybrid and then getting a Master's from Columbia. literally all prestigious af

>>8535473
Melville, Hemingway, Dickens.

>>8535654
My bad then, still have three writers, plus the other writers the other anons have mention.

>>8535335
>he reads authors who went to school

what a faggot

>>8535335
School is for plebs

>>8535473
me

>>8535473
kys

>>8535676
honestly.

>>8535473
God, author of The Bible

>>8535366
every time ;_;

>>8536279
keeek

>>8536279
could god establish a college so prestigious that even he couldn't get accepted?

>>8535335
I actually lower my expectations if the author is too wound up in the ivory tower bullshit. Everything they write is primped with affectations and too self-aware. It's all about what's fashionable and the name dropping circlejerk.

>>8536321

Yes. He simply projects another existence of himself that is inferior to his original existence, then the original God rejects the application of the copy God.

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>>8536713
i like where this is going

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>tfw the author is not unknown

>>8536700
Pynchons my fav writer for sure

>>8535473
Homer. We don't even know if he went to grammar school. Sure, grammar hadn't been invented back then. Still, you'd expect the guy who founded literature as we know it to look better on his resume.

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>>8536861

In that case quite a decent chunk of greek/latin writers were former slaves who were freed and pumped out some of the most important works of their time.

Terence who almost every monk/student used to help study Latin even though he had "filthy' scenes had such clear concise language that they overlooked it. He was a slave as well.

>universities faces when they can't pump out more prestigious writers then slaves

>>8536884
yeah but no-one said starting with the Greeks was not a complete meme

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>>8535335
>going to school
>For writing
What? If you know how to spell, and have enough knowledge about entertainment then you can write a book, even Donald Trump can write a book.

Writing isn't the same as being a physicist

>>8536951
that's bretty cool

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>>8535335
>>8535473
>>8536956
Yeah..

>>8536951
To be fair, Donald Trump attended a very prestigious school.

What qualifies a school as a tier one school? I'm not from America and there aren't heaps of universities in Australia..

>>8535473
Chaucer

Usually school kills the creativity and spontaneity in an artist, or it isn't indicative of the path the artist will choose later (for example, Proust graduated in law)

>>8535473
Proust
Dante
Dostoevsky

>>8535335
protip - these are the only tier 1 schools in america (also top 4 worldwide):

princeton
harvard
yale
stanford

tier 2:
columbia, duke, penn, etc.

tier 3:
georgetown, berkeley, vanderbilt, etc.

anything below this is absolute trash

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>>8537276
>MIT
>absolute trash
Show those STEMtards!!

>>8537280
mit is in the etc part of tier 2

>>8537281
Sniffman taught you well.

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>>8535335
>Author didn't go to school

>>8536984
harvard princeton yale stanford mit oxford cambridge

>>8537276
d-does it count if you do post-grad at a tier 1 but your degree was only at a top 30? Asking for a friend.

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>author doesn't come from a STEM background