Charles Bukowski Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994
Birthday: August 16
Death: March 9
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.
topic: Art, Drinking, Writing, Starving Artist, Candy Bar
