“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
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“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author<br/>“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter<br/>In The Last Night of the Earth Poems, Charles Bukowski's gritty poems deal with writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past.
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Charles Bukowski
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“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
“great books are the ones we need”
“I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.”