“Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .” WritingSaidTenderness Book:Women Source: Women
“The secret is writing down one simple line after another.” WritingLinesSimpleSecret Author:Charles Bukowski
“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?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too.” WritingMeanStoriesInspirationNamesNovelWifeCancerMy WifeInstanceShort StorySheetsDoomHalfway Author:Charles Bukowski
“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 until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.” WritingWaitingTroubleCrazyLeisureDrankLeisure TimeGoing Crazy Author: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 strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.” IfsMenWritingEyeFacesDesireDiesWaterSleepLaughingHellFireMassLosingStrongerLuckFighterRejectionRisingToesTigersHonoredRidiculeFace To FaceStrideDams Author:Charles Bukowski
“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 money.” GivingWritingBeautifulBedGive MeGet UpHandfulBeautiful WomenPurses Author:Charles Bukowski
“I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.” WritingCleverHidingVery Clever Author:Charles Bukowski
“Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.” WritingHurtNovelHotComing OutIt HurtsTurds Author:Charles Bukowski
“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity” WritingLife IsSecretPaintingProfoundSimplicityProfound Truth Author:Charles Bukowski
“If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.” IfsWritingWellsMatterPastNextLines Author:Charles Bukowski
