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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 of
you,
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

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter. — 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 some
men
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 typewriter
and 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

I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them. — Charles Bukowski

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with 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 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea. — Charles Bukowski

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski