Top 5 Rules for Writers - Charles Bukowski
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2018
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he gave it his all. You can like it or not, but he did everything for it. And I mean everything.
Exactly! One of the greatest writers of all time, Oscar Wilde, said, “ Nowadays books are written by everybody and read by nobody “. Just munch on that awhile.
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think
I'm not going to make it
but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you've felt that way”
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~ Charles Bukowski 😎
CB is the grandpa I never had. I love this list!!! Great for songwriters too =)
Number 5 felt like he was reciting a poem. It came easy for him. What a genius.
One of my all time favorites! Long live the Buk! Thanks for sharing!
must be great to write..his writings are addictive,,. just want more.
@Community Literature Initiative - I was "homeless" for years, including 1981. I despise the designation "homeless" however "streetful" doesn't work. I was cleaning a horrible apartment in upscale West Hollywood so that I could use the shower. Diane and a woman I didn't know entered the apartment with a new bottle of wine. "This is Linda", she said, "her husband is a poet..." and Diane went clubbing for the night. Linda and I drank the wine, taking our time. She talked about everything, including her husband. "He writes for the Free Press", she said. Said I, "Notes from a Dirty Old Man I think..." - "that's him", she said, and I admitted that I had never read his column. We drank, Linda left for Pedro, Diane came home, drunk. The next day I went to the West Hollywood Public Library on San Vicente and I sat and read Bukowski for hours. The librarian told me I would have to leave because I kept laughing out loud. Charles Bukowski has saved me from suicide many, many times. Thank you for this.
thanks for sharing, Dennis.... in 1980 I moved to the Bronx to be close to Manhattan and started looking for a
job.... saw an ad in the Village Voice where they were looking for people to tidy up census reports from earlier
that year.... walking unfamiliar windy empty streets, learning to knock with keys that opened the doors to my
apartment where the lone radiator would bang and jive, bang and jive... never delivering with the heat... the place
colder than many of the hallways/doorways I knew in the daytime.
I like your version better.
you are not Bukowski...
Dennis Mason & William Morse, thank you both for sharing your experiences. Dennis, I hope you continue to resist the temptation to just call it quits. It's wonderful to read that Bukowsky has helped you. William, I hope you have found warmth, in every sense of the word...As for David Scharf's dismissive comment at the end, I hope you gentlemen have the presence of mind to say, Fuck Him! He clearly doesn't understand. My thanks again for sharing and best wishes to you both.
Bukowski precisely said "don't starve for art" because dedication without talent is futile...
I agree 100%. There's so much crap to fill a paper quota it kind of makes me thinking green.
Those words about atomic age are so relevant nowadays
Hi Hank! Your rule of writing is interesting for me.
Oh god thank you..once I let my boyfriend read some of my writing he trashed it..my advice never let close ones read your writing..tell them to go buy it when it's publish..
Been there, sister ❤️
Great edit thanks
#5 He talks about life happening while crickets chirp in the background
Good stuff. Thanks
#6 Don't try.
He is the spoken word
Do you know why Bukowski never referred to Nietzsche or Osho, because those are the people that exemplify his writing. 🙏🏼😊
bukowski bukowski and more bukowski
It's like if you're a blues player you have to have lived it to play it. And I think he has had a pretty rough life I have never seen a happy poem. I have an outsider book with him in it there were only five positions fronted by Gypsy Lou price or was it Lujan press. That is what got me interested in this and researching the stories the one of gypsy Lou Webb is a great story and she's 92 and still alive and I have the movie and it was good
Check out some of his daughter poems if you want an affirmative Buk. He said she made him swallow his heart like a chilled drink.
Awesome tips :)
"the flies were walking around"
2: 10 - EXCEPT for booze, Sir! I did the same thing with the bass guitar, only I gave it up to have a family. I wouldn't trade a minute of those 12 years, though. Charles Bukowski is one of my favorite sources for written entertainment, I was referred by my youngest brother, and the boozy lifestyle was the reason. Me, not my bro.
Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun starved.
Knut Hamsun was also a role model for old Charlie..
As well as Albert Camus and Louie Ferdinand Celine.
Hunger is a sad book
Hank , drink on ! 🍻🍷🍺🍾
Wonderful, excellent writer.
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"Starving" means bowing out of a life routine to resist capitalism that intrudes your 24hr day.
Any prolific artist has to do it if they want to work the magic.
Man he looked high is f****** in the end of this video LOL I don't know how he lived that long
A professor who leads with " whot zup "? Excellent. You could walk into a job anywhere in England.
Scotland has standards.
Kevin, I know it's been a while since you posted your comment; who knows where you are at now? I remain slightly perplexed though. You reference the African-American Professor's casual opening greeting, in a vernacular that would be familiar to millions. Then you go on to posit that "Scotland has standards". Are you implying that the man would be unwelcome here? Doesn't quite come up to scratch because he embraces some of his own cultural norms in America? He is clearly open minded & intelligent enough to teach creative writing at a very advanced level - a professor, remember - and advocates a provocative free thinker like Bukowsky. Sounds great to me!...Somehow, for you, that's good enough for England but not here??? You got a problem with the gentleman in question? I apologise if I have misread your comment. Please clarify?
Lay down for three or four days, get your juices back, then get up look around and do.
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'Top five rules for writers make sure you click the subscribe button so you can get more great content for writers' wonder what the fuck he woulda made of that! :-)))))))
For a moment I thought he said "Nazi writers workshop".
This damn guy is the joker
You're pronouncing his name wrong. Here, listen to the man himself: "It's Buk, as in puke."
Bukowski was a great poet but a not so good prose writer. I believe there are many who would call his novels boring, and I've been one of them. 'Women'. Case in point. Equally, these are this University's top Bukowski rules. Are these definitively the things Bukowski would say if you asked him? I don't know. Also, don't starve. That's no good for anyone.
I’ve read Post Office and I definitely did not think it was boring. The characterization of the narrator seeps through every single word.
@@outis439-A Post Office is okay and I liked Factotum. I'm just saying that there are a lotta people who would say he was boring, and I can understand, even though I like some of his stuff. It's subjective.
@@maxwatt5938 A lot of people such as...? Oh yourself cool
@@outis439-A I just told you that I liked Factotum and his poetry. Idiot.
@@maxwatt5938 Yeah, I must say you really are full of it. I mean, if what you are saying is true that people haunt the streets in protest on how boring Bukowski is, people would make fun of the 'anti boredom' thing he always preached. Quite ironic for a boring writer if I do say so myself, but I don't. Especially from Post Office. The syntax makes the story. It's comparable to Catcher in The Rye easily. A matter of fact, I personally think it's more interesting and funny.
I could have looked these things up. It would have been something to make a comment, other than to push the subscribe button.
Mediocrity: A normal civilised person from 8 to 5 :V
He's wasted.😂
Bukowski should have learned to write himself before giving advice to others, his writings are depressing, boring and pathetic. There are so many good writers around today and why anybody would admire his rubbish is a mystery.