Charles Bukowski, with typically frank and brutal honesty on where he found his writing chops …
This clip is taken from the documentary Born Into This…
Have you ever been beaten with a razor strop
three times a week
from the age of six
until eleven?
you know how many beatings that is?
So, you see this was very good literary training for me.
beating me with that strop
taught me something…
…how to type.
the connection is…
when you’ve had the shit kicked out of you
for long enough,
and long enough,
and long enough,
you have a tendency to say what you really mean.
