“What is your advice to young writers?""Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.""What is your advice to older writers?""If you're still alive, you don't need any advice.""What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?""What makes you take a shit?”

American poet and novelist of the 20th century, Charles Bukowski is best known for his raw, unflinching portrayals of working-class life and his rebellious, often darkly humorous prose. His work, steeped in grit and authenticity, captures the struggles and resilience of ordinary people with uncompromising honesty.