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I woke up and reached for one of the books by the bed. It was Bukowski. I opened him at random and read a poem I’d not read before – it was called How To Be A Great Writer and in it he said: remember the old dogs who fought so well: Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun. if you think they didn’t go crazy in tiny rooms just like you’re doing now wit
... See moreKate Tempest • Hold Your Own
a poem by America’s master calligrapher, Lloyd Reynolds. He wrote, “A bug crawls over the paper. Leave him be. We need all the readers we can get.”
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
It is important to remember we are not the poem.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
the writer Charles Bukowski said: ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’
Robin Sharma • The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
Yet this opportunity to be brilliant was, in turn, more like something else, an opportunity to be admired; even, and he could at least thank the tequila for such honesty, however brief its duration, to be loved. Loved precisely for what was another question: since he’d put it to himself he might answer: loved for my reckless and irresponsible appea
... See moreMalcolm Lowry • Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
