Don’t Try, He Said
Bukowski famously told aspiring writers, “Don’t try.” He even put it on his tombstone. The punchline was that some people actually believed him.
“Don’t try,” he said. But no one ever stayed drunk that way.
Following his death on March 9, 1994, Charles Bulowski’s gravestone read: “Don’t Try”. It’s a  phrase he used in one of his poems, a phrase he’d used advising aspiring writers and poets about inspiration and creativity.
Bukowski explained the idea in a 1963 letter to John William Corrington, expanding on the terrible advice contained…
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