Things You Need to Know Before Writing
Mastering the art of writing
If it doesn’t come bursting out of you despite everything, don’t do it.
Unless it comes unasked out of your heart, your mind, your mouth, and your gut don’t do it.
If you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunching 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, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your parents, or 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, 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, 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 Quotes to Ignite Your Creative Spark
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