So you want to be a writer?
if it doesnāt come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
donāt do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
donāt do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
donāt do it.
if youāre doing it for money or
fame,
donāt do it.
if youāre doing it because you want
women in your bed,
donāt do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
donāt do it.
if itās hard work just thinking about doing it,
donāt do it.
if youāre trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
youāre not ready.
donāt be like so many writers,
donāt be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
donāt be dull and boring and
pretentious, donāt be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
donāt add to that.
donāt do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
donāt do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
donāt do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
- Charles bukowski
Leeloo wants me to know she is here for me.
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