The worst part about literature purist is that for all their smug posturing they almost always suck at writing genre. I remember when being trapped in a class full of them, and when the time came to write a sci-fi story none of them could pull it off. Everything they wrote was either cliche as hell or so artistically ambiguous as to be a slog to read.

theprisonindustrialcomplex:

daisenseiben:

I hate lit purists so much. They go on and on about “non-genre” lit but all their work winds up in the same not!genre: boring maudlin fucks who mope about how their lives suck.

I’m half convinced that these lit purists only cling to their fart-huffing because they know if they actually had to compete in the industry they’d get curbstomped.

best writing prof I ever had was this Indian lady who was a published and successful novelist who was teaching as a form of early retirement.

She was very aggressive in her goal of wiping away all the bullshit other professors taught us for years, and i’ll always remember when she said 

“You have two options, you can be a great writer who knows how the appeal to an audience and writes for a living, or you could be a burnt-out literature professor that always claims to be working on something but never does because all you do is regurgitate the same 4 short stories from other losers.”