If it doesn't come bursting out of you In spite of everything Don't Do It! Unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut Don't Do It! If you have to sit up for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words Don't Do It! If it is hard work, just thinking about doing it Don't Do It! Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket Unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder Don't Do It! When it is truly time If you have been chosen It will do it by itself and then it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you There is no other way and there never was -- Charles Bukowski