Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
fear moving writing
Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.
airplane passing overhead
I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
laughter real laughing
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
sleep night people
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
love-you sleep night
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.
children house normal
as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
light levis life-is
You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.
news newspapers happens
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
guy ifs
If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.
heart light laughing
The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.
crazy laughing reason
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
choke
It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
writing people desperate
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.