Top 66 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski

These are some quotes by American author Charles Bukowski Author, who lived between August 16, 1920 and March 9, 1994.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

Charles Bukowski

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

Charles Bukowski

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Charles Bukowski

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Charles Bukowski

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

Charles Bukowski

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

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