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Write Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
- Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
- If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
- 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…
- Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".…
- 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…
- not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
- 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?’…
- 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…
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- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams