Charles Bukowski Quotes

When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWritingHustleBadSayLiving

Actually caffeine is too hard on my system. I'm a delicate boy from Plano, Texas.

John Benjamin Hickey

TexasBoyHardCaffeineSystemToo

When I'm on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

Jeremy Lin

HeartPlayTryEmotionCourt

In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.

Meghan Trainor

SchoolHigh SchoolAwesomeHighDate

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

CollegeStoryBackPlaceHospital

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

Stephen Hawking

FearTimeTravelTalkingTime Travel

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Livy

HistoryEyesAboveGloriousActions

I do have a Twitter account, and there's a woman at my agency who got that all set up for me. I don't know how many followers I have. It's not one of those things I check on a regular basis.

Christian Slater

WomanMeKnowUpCheckFollowers

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Brian Eno

MusicTechnologyYouWithoutImagine

My business partner Warren Adams and I formed our company WalkRunFly as part of what felt like a logical progression: if you want to execute things to your satisfaction, then you want to have as much control as you can. That leads to helping create work for others, not just yourself.

Brandon Victor Dixon

WorkBusinessYourselfControlYou

For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else.

Alicia Vikander

LipstickNothingEventsPencilUse

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.

Peter Hain

FreedomPowerSupportPeopleHelp

I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.

Sebastian Coe

LifeGoodPeopleWinBelieveLose

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