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Charles Bukowski

American Author

Born: Aug 16, 1920

Died: Mar 9, 1994

Good Life Me Will Writing You

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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that. Charles Bukowski

Hope Best You Writing Everything Ears Mad No Hope Fingernails Stuffed Because Your Works Chose

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see. Charles Bukowski

Work Words Photograph See Only Writer

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

Pot Write Dementia Getting Much Now Belly Creeping

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter. Charles Bukowski

You Woman Typewriter Without

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. Charles Bukowski

Writers Put Wrong Editor Up Eternal Ageless Thing

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity. Charles Bukowski

Politics Natural Stupidity Through Friends Done Much Publishing

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

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation. Charles Bukowski

Generation Writer Generally Force His Years Anywhere

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