Whenever I feel blocked in any creative endeavor

[Beringia]

6. I think it does require you to sit down when you don't feel like it

Maybe Bukowski didn't need that.


Mike Royko, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times who wrote a daily column, said to young woman reporter, he had blood coming out of his hands every night, hard to write.


James Dickey (he wrote Deliverance) said a poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.