writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all


Charles Bukowski

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Nonetheless, writing regularly, inspiration or no, is not a bad way to eventually get into an inspir...
ALICE W. FLAHERTY
Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.
Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You w...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
"Fool!" said my muse to me, "look in thy heart,...
PHILIP SIDNEY
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to ...
THOMAS BERNHARD
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom wh...
KURT VONNEGUT
The music lets me see the story but the story doesn't let me write the words.
ELIZABETH J. KOLODZIEJ
Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANçOIS MAURIAC
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
To be motivated to write a novel, I need to be unable not to write.
JOHNNY RICH
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of explorati...
ANDRE DUBUS
Writer's Block is just an excuse by people who don't write for not writing.
GIANDO SIGURANI
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll ...
LAURA KASISCHKE
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing,...
E. L. DOCTOROW
‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do
and a madman
does excep...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Christmas poem to a man in jail

hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around wai...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some l...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
TERRY MCMILLAN
A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.
STEVE BISLEY
The secret to good writing is to use small words for big ideas, not to use big words for small ideas...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating ...
HARLAN COBEN
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're do...
E. L. DOCTOROW
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do n...
JOSE SARAMAGO
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
HILAIRE BELLOC
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL
The more you write, the better you will get at writing. The better you get at writing, the more you ...
LORRIN L. LEE
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear f...
JESSE KELLERMAN
All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. ...
ERICA JONG
If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.
ELAINE LINER
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousan...
JOHN KRICFALUSI
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN
Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers ...
VIRGINIA ALISON
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something tha...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.
JOHN ROGERS
Breaking through writer's block is like thinking out of the box: Both require an ability to imagine ...
SUSAN J. MCINTIRE
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude ...
JOHN CHEEVER
Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Everyone carries a story which can be a best selling novel, it’s just a matter of penning down you...
SOHIL ASHVIN SHAH
Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting s...
BARBARA DELINSKY
I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.
OLD ENGLISH WRITING
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
KATHY ACKER
As a writer: Aim toward becoming keen through a looking glass limn perspective on evoking pleasures ...
JT SANZ
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me i...
CHINUA ACHEBE
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that&#...
SARAH HALL
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
COURTNEY LOVE
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it...
BEN OKRI
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roug...
MARY OLIVER
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b...
JUNOT DíAZ
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
LYNN ABBEY
The worst day of writing is still better than the best day of telemarketing.
ALEXI ZENTNER
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of ins...
ANNE LAMOTT
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better under...
STEPHEN KING
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving e...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of ...
ANNIE DILLARD
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
MACKENZIE ASTIN
After finishing 1st draft of a novel, I have the characters, dialogue, scenes, and a plotline. I use...
EDWARD FAHEY
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at ...
DORIS LESSING
The difference between wanting to write and having written is one year of hard, relentless labour. I...
SHATRUJEET NATH
If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.
ANNE LAMOTT
Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
CARLA H. KRUEGER
My job as a writer is simple.
Write a book I’m proud of,
and present it as a gift to the...
KATHLEEN BALDWIN
Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.
MEAGAN SPOONER
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the ...
BERNARD CORNWELL
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a jo...
CHILA WOYCHIK
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just enter...
DEAN KOONTZ
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have do...
JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Anyone who says writing is easy isn't doing it right.
AMY JOY
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the fe...
ANAïS NIN
great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It feels a little scary for most writers because when you're writing, you're completely in charge �...
MICHAEL CHABON
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen...
LAINI TAYLOR
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing a...
DAN GREENBURG
I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
JOSEPH FIENNES
My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I’m proud of, and present it as a gift to the world. KATHLEEN BALDWIN the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, pre...
STEPHEN KING
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w...
SAM SHEPARD
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
COURTNEY LOVE
A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

More Charles Bukowski

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt aw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Find what you love and let it kill you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politic...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show yo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the W...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sigh...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, in...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, c...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Never get out of bed before noon
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times lo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies

we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't writ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The Genius Of The Crowd

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him ou...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shak...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from other...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. T...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I care for you, darling, I love you,
the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it d...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll sho...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the loc...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of every...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulatio...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or poli...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. T...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Beasts bounding through time.

Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
dogs and angels are not
very far apart
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench an...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continu...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I'm becoming softer and softer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Uno se puede encariñar de muchas cosas aparte del sexo pero es mejor si el sexo está presente de a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI
your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Thirty- eight years old and he was finished. He sipped at the coffee and remembered where he had gon...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You have to die a few times before you can really
live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. Th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
- I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.

still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI