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In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting.
— Charles Bukowski
If you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else. — Charles Bukowski
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
— Charles Bukowski
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
— Charles Bukowski
Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
— Charles Bukowski
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
— Charles Bukowski
Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
— Charles Bukowski
Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
— Charles Bukowski
Only assholes talk about writing
— Charles Bukowski
To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
— Charles Bukowski
Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.
— Charles Bukowski
To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth,
— Charles Bukowski
Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.
— Charles Bukowski
Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it.
— Charles Bukowski
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
— Charles Bukowski
The writing of somemen
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.
The Wine of Forever — Charles Bukowski
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
— Charles Bukowski
Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
— Charles Bukowski
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out
— Charles Bukowski
Take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning — Charles Bukowski
Writing is its own intoxication.
— Charles Bukowski
Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
— Charles Bukowski
Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.
— Charles Bukowski
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.
— Charles Bukowski
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.
— Charles Bukowski
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
— Charles Bukowski
I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness.
— Charles Bukowski
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness ...
— Charles Bukowski
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
— Charles Bukowski
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
— Charles Bukowski
The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us — Charles Bukowski
What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski
Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats. — Charles Bukowski
And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.
— Charles Bukowski
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
— Charles Bukowski
People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
— Charles Bukowski
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
— Charles Bukowski
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
— Charles Bukowski
If you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. — Charles Bukowski
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
— Charles Bukowski
I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buickor a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea. — Charles Bukowski
