Charles Bukowski Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Writing, Giving

• You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friday, Lonely, Sorry

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

• writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, People, Desperate

• Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Profound, Simplicity

• some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

  Charles Bukowski

  Nice, Writing, Moments

• I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love, Romantic, Writing

  Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

• great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Mean

• 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 you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fear, Moving, Wine

• I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Writing, Night

• Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Writing, Rose

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Writing, Failing

• bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Bad Writing, Bad Woman

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.131, City Lights Books

• Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Writing, Hot

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Insanity, Way

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

• 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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Block, Writing, Writers Block

• 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 said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Writing, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

• I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Drinking, Writing

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

• There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

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

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Trying

• Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Thinking, People

• and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

  Charles Bukowski

  Believe, Writing, Phones

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.90, Canongate Books

• the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Wine, Men

• To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Moving, Writing

• Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Writing, Waiting

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