Charles Bukowski Quotes

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Topics

GoodWritingBadBecauseLikeThose

I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

ShortGuyWhoTooListenedSwedish

Australia's beautiful, but I'm not too into Australian culture.

Jens Lekman

BeautifulCultureAustraliaToo

I was a huge comic book fan. It's weird because the era of 'Marvel' I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it's not the one that anybody romanticizes.

John Darnielle

BookWeirdLongImportantRunOut

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

John Lyly

HopeHeartPastMindShameWhere

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimeBetterDuckLearnTryingLost

I do not believe in terrorism, violence, destruction, murder, pre-emption, or War.

Rosanne Cash

WarBelieveViolenceTerrorism

I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people saw things.

Roy Lichtenstein

PeopleThinkSeeingWayExcitedSaw

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

Josh Silver

TogetherMoreBandSurvivingPlaying

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Dean Stanley

SceneryStrangeMoreNeverAgain

To be able to bring a championship back to Denver means everything.

Chris Harris, Jr.

BackEverythingBringDenverAble

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

Christina Baker Kline

MeetingConnectingLikeReaders

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

Courtney A. Kemp

FreeUniversePlanExerciseDown

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