The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way Quotes

“that’s just what happens when the words carry you and you forget the human side. Writers are all bastards, trying to knock off each other or some editor, or they, like I, throw dirt on the dying. I hate my guts.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing

“The writing arrives when it wants to. There is nothing you can do about it. You can’t squeeze more writing out of the living than is there. Any attempt to do so creates a panic in the soul, diffuses and jars the line.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing