Is it true that all great writers are published by the age of 25?

Is it true that all great writers are published by the age of 25?

>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
>Bret Easton Ellis was 23 when Rules of Attraction 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
>Mira Gonzalez was 21 when i will never be beautiful enough for us to be beautiful together was published
>Mira Gonzalez was 23 when Collected Tweets was published
>Kim Insuk was 20 when Bloodline was published
>Evelyn Waugh was 25 when Decline and Fall was published
>Ben Brooks was 18 when Grow Up was published

>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
>Michel de Ghelderode was 23 when Voyage Autour de ma Flandre was published
>Patrick Modiano was 23 when La Place de l'étoile was published
>Rupi Kaur was 21 when milk and honey was published
>Spencer Madsen was 23 when You Can Make Anything Sad was published
>Ellen Kennedy was 19 when Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs was published
>Jordan Castro was 21 when Young Americans was published
>Andrew McMillan was 21 when every salt advance was published
> Barney Norris was 24 when To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill was published
>Tennessee Williams was 25 when Candles to the Sun was published
>JD Salinger was 20 when "Young Folks" was published

autism

I'm glad almost half of these are not great writers

This kills the OP.

Yeah but it's probably shit nobody's ever heard of. As in the works they have published before 25 will not be known

corroboration here

>Wah, wah, I want to be a "Great Writer"
>But I haven't actually written anything
>Wah

OP, you're a walking talking punchline.

Write a manifesto and kill yourself, it's the only way anybody will ever care to read your garbage thoughts.

say what you will about anders breivik but at least he had an ideology

I'm not sure having a garbage looney ideology is actually remotely better than being a ideological void acting purely on desire and instinct.

In fact, the latter sounds like a far more interesting conversationalist.

Ideologues get tunnel vision; you only have to put a bullet in them in the end.

Gene Wolfe was just about middle-aged before he was relevant

>genre lit

Literally providing OP's point.

Who is Umberto Eco?

Are you on your period?

>tfw can't think of a great writer who hasn't read a book since high school and who plays video games and shitposts on Veeky Forums all day

Exactly

Bukowski was far from 25

>Bukowski was 24 when Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip was published

Thanks, this will be added next time.

So you're saying if i want to be a mediocre writer for autistic STEM students i should publish before 25? Alternatively i could publish a book that i'm not well known for?

>tfw can't think of a great writer who hasn't read a book since high school and who plays video games and shitposts on Veeky Forums all day

If Marx had had the capacity you know he would have had some strong opinions on Japanese vidya. If you don't read why the hell do you come here?

McCarthy was 26 when he published his first short story ;^)

And like 38 before he published his first novel and 50 something before he was well known and living off his writing.

>If you don't read why the hell do you come here?

It makes me feel smarter

The early works of Nietzsche was shit desu.

Veeky Forums also has the best shit-posts

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