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

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

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.

>writing is muh life! *tips fedora*

lmao kys

[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]

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

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

>tfw on track for publication at 23

Gaddis published at 35

sage

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

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?

twenty-five

>reading things written by people under 30

No thanks, not interesting in juvenilia.

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.

>not reading Rimbaud and Keats

P L E B E

>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

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.

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

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.

>Breece Pancake was 24 when Trilobites was published

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.

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