Writing, a poem by Charles Bukowski:

Writing

a poem by Charles Bukowski

1991

Often it is the only thing between you and impossibility.

No drink, no woman's love, no wealth can match it.

Nothing can save you except writing.

It keeps the walls from falling.

The hordes from closing in.

It blasts the darkness.

Writing is the ultimate psychiatrist,

the kindliest god of all the gods.

Writing stalks death.

It knows no quit,

and writing laughs at itself, at pain.

It is the last expectation, the last explanation.

That's what it is.

Olin Miller, on writing:

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

- Olin Miller.

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Dorothy Parker, on creativity:

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

- Dorothy Parker.

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Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

- Gustave Flaubert.

C. S. Lewis, on writing:

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing:

ink is the great cure for all human ills,

as I have found out long ago.

- C. S. Lewis.

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Rainer Maria Rilke, on writing:

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of you heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

- Rainer Maria Rilke.

E.B. White, on writing:

I admire anyone who has the guts to write anything at all.

- E.B. White.

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Mordecai Richler, on writing:

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

- Mordecai Richler.

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