“look, Burkett, you’re a pusher. as a pusher, you’re great. why don’t you sell mops or insurance or something?”(From The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories)
“what’s wrong with my writing?”
“you can’t push and write at the same time. only Hemingway was able to do that, and then even he forgot how to write.”
Wednesday 24 June 2009
you can’t push and write at the same time
In All the Great Writers, Charles Bukowski describes a conversation between a writer, James Burkett, and publisher, Henry Mason.
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