“Open Your Mouth Only If What You Are Going To Say Is More Beautiful Than Silence.”

I think some writers do suffer this fate mainly because at heart they are rebellious and the rules of grammar like many of the other rules of our world call for a herding in and a confirmation that the natural writer instinctively abhors, and, furthermore, his interest lies in the wider scope of subject and spirit.

— Charles Bukowski, On Writing.

Charles Bukowski, On Writing.

When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.

:the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

— The courage to be disliked.

I forgot the book title. omgg :((

"I have always thought that love was about big moments, that I had to endure pain because love was worth it. Yet here you are, and our love is just simple, pure, a love that I want for the rest of our lives."

Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

Charles Bukowski, On Writing.

how to read all the books in one lifetime?

She did drawing and music and dance and acting and poetry and journaling and photography and everything else, but I'm told she wasn't very good at any of it. Just sort of a... fucked-up soul, looking for something a little bigger than she was.

— J. Sandford, Chosen Prey.