[Jun8]

A poem of his that I think better conveys the idea is "air and light and time and space" (http://www.organicmechanic.org/2005/04/three-by-bukowski/)

"baby, air and light and time and space

have noth­ing to do with it

and don’t cre­ate any­thing

except maybe a longer life to find

new excuses

for."

Now, people who have never tried their hands at writing (or any other tough creation process) should know that this is now always true. There are writers who just sit and go in one sitting (I had read that Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude nonstop, holed up in his study), but this is rather rare. Most writers go through countless revisions, reversal, etc.

However, the grand feeling of "this is the thing I have to do in life", of course, has to be there.