[New-Poetry] Re: so you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski

[Crisman Cooley]

CB is advising Proust against writing _A la recherche du temps  
perdu_, and that we should prefer a literature of post office workers  
"consumed with self-hatred", minds numbed by alcohol to all  
subtlety.  Sound marketing advice, maybe, in the Age of Television.



> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 19:05:11 +0200
> From: "Anny Ballardini" <anny.ballardini at tin.it>
>
> Sent to me by Anna Guterl:
>
>         so you want to be a writer?
>         by Charles Bukowski
>
>
>         if it doesn't come bursting out of you <snip>
>
> 	...

>         don't be like so many writers,
>
>         don't be like so many thousands of
>
>         people who call themselves writers,
>
>         don't be dull and boring and
>
>         pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
>
>         love.
>
>         the libraries of the world have
>
>         yawned themselves to
>
>         sleep
>
>         over your kind.
>
>         don't add to that.
>
>         don't do it.
>
>         unless it comes out of
>
>         your soul like a rocket,
>
>         unless being still would
>
>         drive you to madness or
>
>         suicide or murder,
>
>         don't do it.
>