So, you want to be a writer ? de Charles Bukowski.
Poème extrait de Sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way.
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re 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,
you’re not ready.
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.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t 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.
Pour je ne sais quelle raison, j’ai toujours été transcendée par Charles. Peut-être parce que ses mots crèvent tant de spontanéité que de vérité. Ceci explique mon absence parfois prolongée sur la toile. Ces longs silences pendant lesquels la spontanéité de l’écriture m’a échappée. Ces moments où je ne veux et ne peux me forcer à coucher les mots sur le papier. Un jour, tout prend son sens et ma capacité à laisser mes doigts vagabonder sur le clavier avec aise et entrain me revient. Un jour.
Poème extrait de Sifting through the madness for the Word, the line, the way.
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re 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,
you’re not ready.
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.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t 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.
Pour je ne sais quelle raison, j’ai toujours été transcendée par Charles. Peut-être parce que ses mots crèvent tant de spontanéité que de vérité. Ceci explique mon absence parfois prolongée sur la toile. Ces longs silences pendant lesquels la spontanéité de l’écriture m’a échappée. Ces moments où je ne veux et ne peux me forcer à coucher les mots sur le papier. Un jour, tout prend son sens et ma capacité à laisser mes doigts vagabonder sur le clavier avec aise et entrain me revient. Un jour.
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