January 2010
36 posts
So You Want to Be a Writer, Charles Bukowski
jours:
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don’t do it.
when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
(via...
December 2009
19 posts
blast! (avast!)
I always choose the wrong time of the year to get into a new season of The Wire. These 60-minute, gut-knotting episodes are killing me. Killing me! (and my determination to work on these three papers due Friday!)
What school will do to my sorry ass come Thursday night.
““It Doesn’t Always Work”
I knew a writer once
who always...”
– Charles Bukowski
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams, a writer after my own little heart.
