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Charles Bukowski Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Bukowski

Nice, Writing, Moments

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

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Thinking, People

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”

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

Charles Bukowski

Writing, People, Desperate

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

People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Simple, People

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

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Insanity, Way

Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Simple, Secret

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Men, Cliffs

Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.71, City Lights Books

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

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Trying

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Charles Bukowski

Writing, People, Trying

Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

Charles Bukowski

Writing, Past, Lines

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

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Charles Bukowski

Drinking, Writing, Wine

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.

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

Charles Bukowski

Block, Writing, Writers Block

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

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

Charles Bukowski

Wall, Writing, Failing

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski

Crazy, Writing, Waiting

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