Drinking Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I write better with alcohol.”

— A.D. Starrling

“I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.”

— Kimberly Lauren

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“But I have gone back to work; I try to intoxicate myself with ink, the way others intoxicate themselves with brandy, so as to…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…

— Eve Babitz

“When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading”

— Henny Youngman

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front…

— Charles Bukowski

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord