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Which author do you most identify with, /lit/?

Shelley for me: the terribly self-absorbed idealistic romantic crushed by life.

>> No.8606206

>implying I can identify with someone motivate and talented enough to write literature

>> No.8606215
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For me, it's Salinger - intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.

>> No.8606217

>babbys first romantic

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>>8606204

Stephen king maybe? Only because I fear most things and instead of using that fear to fuel my writing I use it to fuel my intense overeating.

>> No.8606236

Whichever author is not a whiny sad bitch that thinks he's very smart, unique and special.
You're not a deep artist you're just a virgin.

>> No.8606239

>>8606236

please leave, this isn't the board for you. Maybe try >>/pol/ or >>/s4s/

>> No.8606244

my total lack of ambition precludes me from identifying with any major author desu

>> No.8606396

flannery o'connor

southern woman with chronic health problems (im no longer catholic but it's play a major role in my intellectual development)

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>>8606204

My main man Nietzsche.

>> No.8606402

Riillke

>> No.8606406

>>8606396
Are you a woman?

Can I go southern on you?

>> No.8606413

Im getting into cioran and liking it.

>>8606236
Hemingway?

>> No.8606427

Lord Byron
Jack London
Goethe, at least the young Goethe with his Werther

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>>8606396
Please show your feet

>> No.8606500

I'm literally Roberto Bolaño.

>> No.8606521

Franz Kafka
I'm worried people find me revolting

>> No.8606554

>>8606204
Joyce. I'm Irish, obsessed with autistic prose and greek myth

I'll obviously never be that good but still

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Lovecraft - I'm a passive, lonely and anxious person who is unable to describe anything

pic related: yeah, it's him

>> No.8607125

>>8606695
What a cutie. I guess I'm also him.

>> No.8607196

>>8606396
Hey, this actually fits me. The illness part at least.

>> No.8607784

>>8606217
I was gonna argue with this then realized Shelley wasn't just the first Romantic I read and loved but the first poet full stop.