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
laughing firsts serious
Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
library rooms firsts
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
law vaudeville firsts
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
four faces firsts
Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
firsts ass should
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
jobs passion firsts
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
firsts said
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
love-is firsts
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
love-yourself ability-to-love firsts
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
friendship prejudice sharing
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
drinking wine writing
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.
writing agony sweat
I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
mean writing night
A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.
laughing magic lines
Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.