All CHARLES BUKOWSKI Quotes about “Writing”

“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity”
“some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.”
“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
“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.”
“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.”
“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”
“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, canâ€™t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.”
“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.”

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