#dewars

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’re doing it for money or fame,don’t do it.If your doing it because you want women in your bed,don’t do it.If it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,don’t do it.If you are trying to write like somebody else,forget about it.If you have to wait for it t 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 t anybody at all,you’re not ready.Don’t be dull and boring and pretentious,don’t be consumed with self-love.Don’t do it.Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket don’t do it.Unless the sun inside you is burning you 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..
Charles Bukowski