1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.