What makes great writers so abnormal?
Why do rarely hear about a successful writer who is generally a calm, compassionate, humble, normal person?
What makes great writers so abnormal?
Nathan Morales
Gabriel Cox
Broken people write literature, sane people write genre fiction.
Evan Kelly
Everyone is fucked up, it’s just the great writers who we turn a microscope on and find evidence for exactly how and in what ways they were fucked up.
Cameron Rogers
Writing is not humble. An author believes that their thoughts are valuable enough for others to read, unless you're ghostwriting or pushing potboiler.
Brayden Diaz
Because writing gives you an opportunity to think and reflect before speaking, and usually if you think more than talk, you're dull and boring, and you should go to that quiet corner that no one can have "fun" in.
Usually, people who are bubbly and normal can just vent to others that will listen to them, and they will have strong communication skills. They don't need to write to share anything. Not saying all people are like that...just saying.
Ethan Smith
Cope
Daniel Rivera
delet this
Sebastian Cook
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
applying that to the individual can help to see why the history of art is rife with abnormality. what is there to be said in art of a normativity that takes itself for granted versus the infinite range of subverting that normativity? society already is imposing norms that perpetuate it and I don't think it's art's role to merely reinforce/reproduce that on a surface level. the greeks flocked to theatre for the spectacle of tragedy and the history of art followed suit, in terms of the nature of the works in the canon
Chase Anderson
The normie feels no need to talk about these problems. For them these problems are elsewhere. Bringing up such a topic in normie circles makes them feel as if they are witnessing some strange magic that is not for them. There is, of course, a glimmer inside their brains somewhere which reflects the fact that they too posses such thoughts, but why bother with something so far away and so "unrealistic"? Whatever they posses (an overly balanced mind???) + being constantly in normie circles which trains this behaviour further allows them to have this naturalistic attitude.
Nicholas Wilson
You have a bunch of literary critics who say that the ramblings of a disturbed mind are "great literature". After they drop the Bomb and the human race digs itself out of the rubble I am willing to leave just about all modern lit in the ruins. Jane Austen, Alfred Loyd Tennyson, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain I would keep...the rest of 19th century lit I would mostly forget. In 20th century lit I would keep
Vonnegut - especially Player Piano , and CS Lewis and Tolkien, but nihilistic and atheist literature I would keep out...Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson and nearly all the modern authors that lit likes I would just leave in the ruins as well...