Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

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• Charles Bukowski:

  It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

• Charles Bukowski:

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• Charles Bukowski:

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

• Charles Bukowski:

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  When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's

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• Charles Bukowski:

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• Charles Bukowski:

  I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

• Charles Bukowski:

  I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulati