Charles Bukowski(1920-1994)

His favorite movie was Cabeza de borrador (1977), though he disliked director David Lynch after he met him, thinking that he and his wife Isabella Rossellini, put on airs of superiority around him. Although Bukowski often claimed he hadn't seen any movie since Días sin huella (1945) until he got involved in making Barfly (1987), other films he said he liked were Atrapado sin salida (1975), Lynch's El hombre elefante (1980), ¿Quién le teme a Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Sin novedad en el frente (1930).

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that you're pushing it. The horses [horse races] give me something to do. At the age of 50 I quit a job at the post office and decided to become a full-time writer. The old guy's crazy, my landlady declared, striking her head with her palm. I wrote my first novel, named "Post Office", in nineteen nights, working on Scotch and beer. I had prepared by going to L.A. City College and taking journalism. They taught me how to type.(...)I just got an electric a couple of years ago. At the first, I was a starving writer. I went from 190 pounds down to 130. Everything I put in the mail came right back to me. The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker, they rejected everything. I threw it all away. I started out again, selling to the porno mags. What I used to do was, write a good story and throw in some goddamn sex. It worked. I only got one story rejected - it had too much sex! They draw a fine line. 'Bukowski,' the editor wrote me, 'nobody on earth screws that many women in a week and a half!'[1987]