Intriguing, in simple words it states what it takes to write and be writer.
Write with story never heard before, write to share emotion hidden in corner of your heart, write to carve a character that is as unique as nature’s creation.
“so you want to be a writer ?”
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 have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.
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.if you have to wait for it to roar out of
if you first have to read it to your wife
don’t be like so many writers, when it is truly time,
there is no other way. and there never was. “
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/19/so-you-want-to-be-a-writer-charles-bukowski/