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SO 'WOULD YOU LIKE to be a writer? - Charles Bukowski



if you do not explode all inside in spite of everything, do not.
unless you come straight from the heart and mind and mouth and guts, do not.
if you just stand sitting for hours staring at computer screens or bent over the typewriter searching for words, do not.
if you do it for money or fame, do not.
if you do it because women want in bed, do not.
if you sit there writing and rewriting, do not.
if it is already hard at the thought of it, do not.
if you're trying to write like somebody else, forget it.

if you wait until you come out as a roar, then wait patiently.
if you do not ever released as a roar, do something else.
if you read it first to your wife or your girlfriend or your boyfriend or your parents or someone, you're not ready.

not be like so many writers, do not be like all those thousands of people who call themselves writers, do not be dull and boring and pretentious, do not get consumed by self-complacency.
the libraries of the world have yawned herself to sleep for guys like you.
not join them.
not.
unless you come out from the soul like a rocket, unless the stand still does not take you to madness or suicide or murder, do not.
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, do not.

when it is really time and if you are predestined, by itself and will continue until you die or you will die.

there is no other way.

and there never was.