tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708689.post6766108055098129563..comments2018-12-06T20:20:27.171-05:00Comments on Opuscula: Bukowski On WritingSteve Glineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01277042635766942067noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708689.post-13139137172057725592009-04-01T13:10:00.000-04:002009-04-01T13:10:00.000-04:00Bukowski On Writingif it doesn't come bursting out...Bukowski On Writing<BR/><BR/>if it doesn't come bursting out of you<BR/>in spite of everything,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>unless it comes unasked out of your<BR/>heart and your mind and your mouth<BR/>and your gut,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if you have to sit for hours<BR/>staring at your computer screen<BR/>or hunched over your<BR/>typewriter<BR/>searching for words,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if you're doing it for money or<BR/>fame,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if you're doing it because you want<BR/>women in your bed,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if you have to sit there and<BR/>rewrite it again and again,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>if you're trying to write like somebody<BR/>else,<BR/>forget about it.<BR/>if you have to wait for it to roar out of<BR/>you,<BR/>then wait patiently.<BR/>if it never does roar out of you,<BR/>do something else.<BR/>if you first have to read it to your wife<BR/>or your girlfriend or your boyfriend<BR/>or your parents or to anybody at all,<BR/>you're not ready.<BR/>don't be like so many writers,<BR/>don't be like so many thousands of<BR/>people who call themselves writers,<BR/>don't be dull and boring and<BR/>pretentious, don't be consumed with self-<BR/>love.<BR/>the libraries of the world have<BR/>yawned themselves to<BR/>sleep<BR/>over your kind.<BR/>don't add to that.<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>unless it comes out of<BR/>your soul like a rocket,<BR/>unless being still would<BR/>drive you to madness or<BR/>suicide or murder,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>unless the sun inside you is<BR/>burning your gut,<BR/>don't do it.<BR/>when it is truly time,<BR/>and if you have been chosen,<BR/>it will do it by<BR/>itself and it will keep on doing it<BR/>until you die or it dies in you.<BR/>there is no other way.<BR/>and there never was.Steve Glineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01277042635766942067noreply@blogger.com