Nah, he was just nuts. Nobody near him said he drank any more than everyone else did.
Is he right?
Thomas Reyes
Jose Long
No.
Asher Edwards
>People tend to write about things they care about
>Surprised
Do you expect Bukowski to write about being a drunk in one book and being a fourteen year old girl during the Civil War in the next? Eat shit, author of linked article. People write about what they know. Yeah, it runs together. Get over it.
Ian Bailey
No, he is not right. Different things work for different people, it's up to you to find out what works for you. Not doing drugs hasn't made "Keith Rawson" a household name.
Bentley Smith
This guy sucks. Did he even take a minute to think about how there are tons of authors who weren't abusers who also struggled with the problem of only having enough ideas for one or a couple great works?
Chase Richardson
the author's not the type of person who needs alcohol or drugs just to face people and/or not blow his brains out. how could he ever hope to have any insight or ever hope to understand the people he mentioned by name in the article. he's some hack drone; fuck him
Cooper Ortiz
I'd say yes. Once serious addiction kicks in the scope of your life narrows considerably and you stop developing as a person, since instead of being forced to seek new and interesting input to remain intellectually and emotionally stimulated, and growing as a person as a result, you can manage (and in most cases, are forced) to subside on ever greater levels of the same stimulus.
Addiction is a more or less binary existence (do I have my drug of choice? if yes, then I'm happy, if no, then I'll go find the easiest route to obtaining it), and it just doesn't make for the development of interesting personalities or concepts.
And that's without touching on all of the cognitive problems which develop (especially with booze and amphetamines).
Don't get me wrong, I think you can learn a lot about yourself and the world if you go through addiction and come out the other side, but someone who never manages that is pretty much in a perpetual state of arrested development.
Eli Ward
no.
most authors write more or less about the same thing/theme over and over again whether they are addicts or not.
also he doesn't talk about the quality of their writing. to me it's almost more important than what they write about
Kayden Garcia
Quality posts
Josiah Wright
Yeah the only good writers these days are reasonable, wholesome, nice and self-conscious MFA degree holders who jog regularly and get CBT for their mental illnesses if they have any, and of course they do.