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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492437" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Remembering Bukowski.... Hope This Is Nothing New To You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So You Want To Be A Writer? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">if it doesn't come bursting out of you<br>in spite of everything, <br>don't do it.<br>unless it comes unasked out of your<br>heart and your mind and your mouth<br>and your gut, <br>don't do it.<br>if you have to sit for hours<br>staring at your computer screen<br>or hunched over your<br>typewriter<br>searching for words, <br>don't do it.<br>if you're doing it for money or<br>fame, <br>don't do it.<br>if you're doing it because you want<br>women in your bed, <br>don't do it.<br>if you have to sit there and<br>rewrite it again and again, <br>don't do it.<br>if it's hard work just thinking about doing it, <br>don't do it.<br>if you're trying to write like somebody<br>else, <br>forget about it.<br>if you have to wait for it to roar out of<br>you, <br>then wait patiently.<br>if it never does roar out of you, <br>do something else.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">if you first have to read it to your wife<br>or your girlfriend or your boyfriend<br>or your parents or to anybody at all, <br>you're not ready.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">don't be like so many writers, <br>don't be like so many thousands of<br>people who call themselves writers, <br>don't be dull and boring and<br>pretentious, don't be consumed with self-<br>love.<br>the libraries of the world have<br>yawned themselves to<br>sleep<br>over your kind.<br>don't add to that.<br>don't do it.<br>unless it comes out of<br>your soul like a rocket, <br>unless being still would<br>drive you to madness or<br>suicide or murder, <br>don't do it.<br>unless the sun inside you is<br>burning your gut, <br>don't do it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when it is truly time, <br>and if you have been chosen, <br>it will do it by<br>itself and it will keep on doing it<br>until you die or it dies in you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is no other way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and there never was.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492437" data-title="Remembering Bukowski.... Hope This Is Nothing New To You de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="So You Want To Be A Writer? if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at y..."></div> </div> </div>
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