Quotes by Writing writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. Charles Bukowski desperatewritingpeople great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it. Charles Bukowski writingmeanart not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. Charles Bukowski writingtrying There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. Charles Bukowski cliffswritingmen Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. Charles Bukowski hurthotwriting I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax. Charles Bukowski drinkingwritingart bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it Charles Bukowski bad-womanbad-writingwriting There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything. Charles Bukowski writingjobsmen writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all Charles Bukowski writers-blockblockwriting I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Charles Bukowski writingloveromantic nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. Charles Bukowski wallfailingwriting There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Charles Bukowski writinginsanityway When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. Charles Bukowski suicidewritingmen To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. Charles Bukowski realwritingmoving 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 writingmenart 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 winewritingmen The secret is writing down one simple line after another. Charles Bukowski simplesecretwriting Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. Charles Bukowski writingtryingpeople If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter. Charles Bukowski lineswritingpast People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it. Charles Bukowski simplewritingpeople«213214215216217218219220221222223»
