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[Anonymous No.19377350]

How can I be as good as him?

[Anonymous No.19377893]

Shit on every other author so that people think you must be superior to them

[Anonymous No.19378103]

be born into a trillingual home.

[Anonymous No.19378455]

>>19377350
A student asked him this once after class and N pointed to a tree outside and asked for its name. The student didn’t know and N said that was a problem (he said something snappier and wittier, but you get it). I think it was the preface to Bend Sinister where he says he used to spend ten hours a day in a library reading about butterflies. Find your butterfly and do this. Read, read, read, and read. Read what he liked: Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and the others. Read, think, read, and write, but know that your first writing will be shit, or, as N calls it, spudum (spit) [Strong Opinions]. Don’t think that your writing is bad however, but keep writing and keep reading and you will notice your style developing. You will look back at early writing and think, “Really? I thought that was good?” and this will happen a couple more times with some golden nuggets surviving but eventually you will get to a point where all your writing makes you proud, and the only source of humbling now comes from those great authors that have got you this far. Pic related

[Anonymous No.19378556]

>>19377350
Find a qt Jewess ghostwriter to chauffeur and cook for you too

[Anonymous No.19379839]

>>19377350
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