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Charles Bukowski

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

I used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don’t mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It’s the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

– Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‘i’s’ small.

– Charles Bukowski

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