if you're doing it for money

You may be Dostoevski, Shakespeare, Balzac, or Dickens. Lesser lights have lesser motivations.

AKA:

"Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey."

Thanks, Gerard.

Yeah.....

There's art, and then there's what Memphis Slim once referred to as "The Rent Situation."

Sometimes it's a case of got to.

Needed that particular batch of clarification this evening. Thanks.

What a crock of shit. Nobody worked longer or harder at his craft than Bucky. This is just his kind of joke.

As the regulars at Tiny's Heat Wave would say, "That Bukowski's a lucky bastard"

Bukowski has neatly expressed the "projectile vomiting" philosophy of writing. It's consistent with his "poetry," at least.

You cannot vote the Revolution.
You cannot buy the Revolution.
You can only be the Revolution.
If the torch of freedom doesn't burn in your heart, it is nowhere.

Sounds like snooty Francis Poretto (whom no one bothers to read) took his philosophy straight Bukowski's puking pie hole.

Some people do write intuitively. But it's not the only way to write, or the best way. It's just a function of whether your brain works that way or not.

I was thinking of the many writers of all genre that had only 1 or 2 great books, scrolls, clay tablets etc. Most needed a good editor.

I was thinking of all the libraries (like Alexandria)and museums (like in modern Cairo) destroyed through the ages. You can create, but someone has to recognize, edit, publish and preserve it.

"No man but a blockhead wrote, except for money." --Samuel Johnson.

We'll see who remembers Bukowski over 200 years from now.