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How to be a good writer

Posted by Eldragon on April 8, 2005 at 19:00:30:

how to be a good writer
by Charles Bukowski

you've got to fuck a great many women
beautiful women
and write a few decent love poems.

and don't worry about age
and/or freshly-arrived talents.

just drink more beer
more and more beer

and attend the racetrack at least once a

week

and win
if possible

learning to win is hard -
any slob can be a good loser.

and don't forget your Brahms
and your Bach and your
beer.

don't overexercise.

sleep until moon.

avoid paying credit cards
or paying for anything on
time.

remember that there isn't a piece of ass
in this world over $50
(in 1977).

and if you have the ability to love
love yourself first
but always be aware of the possibility of
total defeat
whether the reason for that defeat
> > seems right or wrong -
> >
> > an early taste of death is not necessarily
> > a bad thing.
> >
> > stay out of churches and bars and museums,
> > and like the spider be
> > patient -
> > time is everybody's cross,
> > plus
> > exile
> > defeat
> > treachery
> >
> > all that dross.
> >
> > stay with the beer.
> >
> > beer is continuous blood.
> >
> > a continuous lover.
> >
> > get a large typewriter
> > and as the footsteps go up and down
> > outside your window
> >
> > hit that thing
> > hit it hard
> >
> > make it a heavyweight fight
> >
> > make it the bull when he first charges in
> >
> > and remember the old dogs
> > who fought so well:
> > Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > drink more beer.
> > there's time.
> > and if there's not
> > that's all right
> > too.
> >
> >
> > "Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt,
> > And dance like nobody's watching"