/lit/ - Literature

>Sits down next to you at a bar
>Orders a beer
>Awkwardly tries to not look at you, then awkwardly looks at the barmaids breasts
>Receives beer
>Near inaudibly: "Th-thank you."
>Uses his boyhood hardback 'Great Expectations' as an coaster
>Stares blankly into the darkness
>Takes a sip of beer and looks at you
>"Did you know loneliness and pussy are the only two things worth writing about?"

>“Did I feel a twinge in my little toe, or didn’t I?” asks every character of Mr. Joyce or of Miss Richardson or M. Proust. . . . Through thousands and thousands of pages Mr. Joyce and Miss Richardson tear themselves to pieces, strip their smallest emotions to the finest threads, till you feel you are sewed inside a wool mattress that is being slowly shaken up, and you are turning to wool along with the rest of the woolliness.

>It’s awful. And it’s childish. It really is childish, after a certain age, to be absorbedly self-conscious.

Was he right /lit/?

How do you start writing a novel for the first time, /lit/?

What the fuck was his problem?

>If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the "Hallelujah Chorus".
what did he mean by this

What does /lit/ think of DH Lawrence?

How good are pic related's novels?

"If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down"

>what did he mean by this

Where's a good place to start with D.H. Lawrence?
I've read a few short stories by him and I'm so far impressed.

I know literally nothing about D.H. Lawrence. How is he remembered and where should I consider starting with his works?