Quotes by Writing I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies. Charles Bukowski winedrinkingwriting I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous. Charles Bukowski functionwritingfall There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through. Charles Bukowski guntypewriterswriting I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair. Charles Bukowski writingtryingfall It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken. Charles Bukowski drunkwritingadvice I have seen too many men wilt and go silly under a little light, and then they continue to write and get published, turning out pure crap under a name that has become a bad habit. The next poem is all that counts. You can't stand on past poems. Charles Bukowski sillywritingmen Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . Charles Bukowski tendernesssaidwriting The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most. Charles Bukowski letting-gowritingneeds WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH. Charles Bukowski guntypewriterswriting Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too. Charles Bukowski cancerinspirationwriting That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got. Charles Bukowski crazywaitingwriting Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it. Charles Bukowski writingmenbook 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 catrosewriting and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive Charles Bukowski phoneswritingbelieve I'm very clever Charles Bukowski hidingcleverwriting If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead. Charles Bukowski ifswritingway The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult. Charles Bukowski easywritingsometimes The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. Charles Bukowski bedresponsibilitywriting Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am. Charles Bukowski solitudewritingneeds I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult. Charles Bukowski agonysweatwriting«214215216217218219220221222223224»
