Charles Bukowski

“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 can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because yo...”

“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they...”

“nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.”

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

“take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning”

“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 contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force,...”

“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

“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 writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter yo...”

“A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe...”

“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”

“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”

“Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out”

“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium numb...”

“Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.”

“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. Yo...”

“The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

“Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.”

“Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.”

“it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.”