glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- so you want to be a writer? a poem by Charles Bukowski 1920-1994 so you want to be a writer? a poem by Charles Bukowski, 1920 - 1994 if it doesn’t come bursting out of you if you have to sit for hours if you’re doing it for money or if you’re doing it because you want if you have to sit there and if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it, if you’re trying to write like somebody if you have to wait for it to roar out of if you first have to read it to your wife don’t be like so many writers, the libraries of the world have unless it comes out of unless the sun inside you is when it is truly time, there is no other way. From sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way by Charles Bukowski. Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of Charles Bukowski 3:48 p.m. - 2016-11-05 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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