![]() You’ll want to brace yourself for this prose.Īn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. If you begin to feel light-headed, take a breather. ![]() I did some digging and in my opinion, here are Bukowski’s hardest-hitting lines. 75 Charles Bukowski quotes (make sure your back is to a wall). While his writing style was less polished than Hemingway’s, it had just as much punch and arguably more tenacity.įor the unfamiliar, reading Charles Bukowski is like going for a ride on a Honey Badger –– nothing is off-limits, nothing is too scary to write about and you never know what the hell he is going to do or say next. ![]() Two, maybe three pages in, I felt like slapping myself in the face –– I couldn’t fathom how I had spent so much time on this planet having never read him. (I wrote down my favorite line from it and the other twenty-five books I’ve read so far this year, here). I picked up Bukowski for the very first time this year, beginning with arguably one of his most widely-read works, The Post Office. ![]() ![]() At the core of all good writing ( and copywriting) is the sentence.Īnd, besides Hemingway, I can’t think of a better craftsman of the single sentence than the late indie poet and novelist, Charles Bukowski. ![]()
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