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Writing 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 ridicule will only…
- Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of…
- Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
- Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
- If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
- 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
- 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 loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.
- 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,…
- some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
- 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…
- nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
- writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
- 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.
- writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
- bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
- 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…
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