Charles Bukowski Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Without literature, life is hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Literature, Life Is, Hell

• Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Writing, Men

• and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Drunk, Looks

  Charles Bukowski, “The History Of One Tough Motherfucker”

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