tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post4778066325043490077..comments2011-08-06T11:55:48.388-04:00Tao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-35823829836117417112010-03-20T16:47:36.279-04:002010-03-20T16:47:36.279-04:00This is one of my favorite ever books. I like to think of my life&#39;s work as Joe Gould&#39;s &quot;The Secret&quot;, because if you truly put your mind to it, you can manifest anything. Most importantly, an over-blown, made-up, fake-genius anything.<br /><br />I miss reading this.Literary Nutriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04303331341480669949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-72160672746995739642010-01-15T10:31:41.642-05:002010-01-15T10:31:41.642-05:00<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breece_D%27J_Pancake" rel="nofollow">Breece D&#39;J Pancake</a>David Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12172704975557204364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-25661058280404417132010-01-14T09:41:25.062-05:002010-01-14T09:41:25.062-05:00seems good<br /><br />can i borrow itZachary Germanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14188086050230223538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-32519166846797937002010-01-13T01:47:25.717-05:002010-01-13T01:47:25.717-05:00&#39;lol&#39;victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13233508158907224868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-15245867392585209802010-01-12T23:29:54.747-05:002010-01-12T23:29:54.747-05:00seems like that is something that charles bukowski thought or felt at some point for some amount of timeTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-33843135582662789442010-01-12T22:18:58.500-05:002010-01-12T22:18:58.500-05:00what&#39;s your opinion on this?<br /><br />So you want to be a writer by Charles Bukowski<br /><br />if it doesn&#39;t come bursting out of you<br />in spite of everything,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />unless it comes unasked out of your<br />heart and your mind and your mouth<br />and your gut,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if you have to sit for hours<br />staring at your computer screen<br />or hunched over your<br />typewriter<br />searching for words,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if you&#39;re doing it for money or<br />fame,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if you&#39;re doing it because you want<br />women in your bed,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if you have to sit there and<br />rewrite it again and again,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if it&#39;s hard work just thinking about doing it,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />if you&#39;re trying to write like somebody<br />else,<br />forget about it.<br /><br />if you have to wait for it to roar out of<br />you,<br />then wait patiently.<br />if it never does roar out of you,<br />do something else.<br /><br />if you first have to read it to your wife<br />or your girlfriend or your boyfriend<br />or your parents or to anybody at all,<br />you&#39;re not ready.<br /><br />don&#39;t be like so many writers,<br />don&#39;t be like so many thousands of<br />people who call themselves writers,<br />don&#39;t be dull and boring and<br />pretentious, don&#39;t be consumed with self-<br />love.<br />the libraries of the world have<br />yawned themselves to<br />sleep<br />over your kind.<br />don&#39;t add to that.<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />unless it comes out of<br />your soul like a rocket,<br />unless being still would<br />drive you to madness or<br />suicide or murder,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br />unless the sun inside you is<br />burning your gut,<br />don&#39;t do it.<br /><br />when it is truly time,<br />and if you have been chosen,<br />it will do it by<br />itself and it will keep on doing it<br />until you die or it dies in you.<br /><br />there is no other way.<br /><br />and there never was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-33021289387517628712010-01-12T18:41:57.557-05:002010-01-12T18:41:57.557-05:00oh, and i liked the reviewpaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08130120442652565183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-11000903662818531962010-01-12T18:40:46.603-05:002010-01-12T18:40:46.603-05:00i thought your &quot;smiling tao lin&quot; profile picture was pretty sweet<br /><br />and then you changed it to &quot;green-hooded non-smiling tao lin&quot;<br /><br />you should change it back to &quot;smiling tao lin&quot;Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605240872643409305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-36629137289432229542010-01-10T08:09:19.941-05:002010-01-10T08:09:19.941-05:00i wish i could readsweetsfromstrangershttp://sweetsfromstrangers.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-89721942317227031102010-01-09T20:39:07.264-05:002010-01-09T20:39:07.264-05:00@jakob nice<br />@timothy nice<br />@abrupt thank you <br />@anonymous yes<br />@andrew probably no<br />@brandon yesTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-8449466698817380112010-01-09T12:37:43.405-05:002010-01-09T12:37:43.405-05:00remember when you used to say &#39;choad&#39; a lotbrandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14089195037888975037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-14348950198431029122010-01-08T23:29:33.224-05:002010-01-08T23:29:33.224-05:00Is it possible to contract &quot;writer&#39;s block&quot; from reading this book?Andrew James Weatherheadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09170181843269053825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-14795899109570781312010-01-08T22:54:32.545-05:002010-01-08T22:54:32.545-05:00&quot;The prose style and tone and focus IS different&quot; . . . Anyone ever teach you about subject/verb agreement?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-85007623510111361792010-01-08T18:36:42.134-05:002010-01-08T18:36:42.134-05:00i am pretty sure you do not have this problem, at least not to the same degree. i am happy for you.abrupthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977582816345132287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-11452790371714855852010-01-08T17:19:57.708-05:002010-01-08T17:19:57.708-05:00review made me want to check it out.timothyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17058301356631958293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-76060417735504135692010-01-08T13:57:33.282-05:002010-01-08T13:57:33.282-05:00nice, it&#39;s been a minute since you wrote about a depressing bookJakobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07516832928424850178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-59069574424843014092010-01-08T10:50:29.611-05:002010-01-08T10:50:29.611-05:00i feel &#39;troubled&#39; by this blog postTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-13423953251871927402010-01-08T05:35:54.154-05:002010-01-08T05:35:54.154-05:00noah kalinaryan manninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12388299572002030189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-90392138262871627132010-01-08T01:09:38.901-05:002010-01-08T01:09:38.901-05:00i like ee cummingsthomashttp://www.enumerations.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-39331290393841939562010-01-08T00:15:42.663-05:002010-01-08T00:15:42.663-05:00<a href="http://bit.ly/6KXyZl" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/6KXyZl</a><br /><br />i have activated the hyper linksteve roggenbuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365298081050960605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-74774000922956170132010-01-08T00:13:47.205-05:002010-01-08T00:13:47.205-05:00e.e. cummings wrote a poem about joe gould, and i found it on google books..<br /><br />http://bit.ly/6KXyZlsteve roggenbuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365298081050960605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-36267222793214461162010-01-07T23:50:15.492-05:002010-01-07T23:50:15.492-05:00should&#39;ve &#39;unloaded&#39; this to some site maybeTao Linhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04807160197099916059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-85878163113219554272010-01-07T23:42:48.880-05:002010-01-07T23:42:48.880-05:00seems sweetdavid fishkindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08021502652677045729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13096981.post-2931725472421285132010-01-07T23:39:03.073-05:002010-01-07T23:39:03.073-05:00i liked reading the reviewbrandonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14089195037888975037noreply@blogger.com