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Writer Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on…
- Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
- When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
- 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…
- When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My…
- 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…
- 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.
- There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
- young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
- well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going…
- The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
- take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
- he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off…
- And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye…
- 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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