if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.

don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.

”
—

Charles Bukowski answers the question “so you want to be a writer?”

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Seneca

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”

Bob Edwards

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“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”

Japanese Proverb

“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”

Oscar Wilde

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.”

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

Galileo Galilei

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

Cary Grant

“I improve on misquotation.”

Kim Van Der Saar

“Tus peores enemigos son los amigos que haz traicionado.”

“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.”

Johnny Carson

“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.”

Laurence J. Peter

“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.”

Alfred E. Newman

“Crime does not pay … as well as politics.”

“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”

Franklin P. Jones

“The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.”

J. W. Eagan

“Never judge a book by its movie.”

Doug Larson

“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”