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
notebook thinking ideas
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
thinking hug
I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.
thinking way feels
How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
thinking ideas people
i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
thinking delay
It seemed better to delay thinking.
tired thinking whales
This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .
cat thinking years
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.
drinking thinking alcohol
I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.
lying men thinking
Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.
coffee thinking together
but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.
country thinking forget
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
thinking young dies
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
crazy thinking rooms
if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
men thinking average
for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had