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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Novelist
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Brooklyn
New York
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Travel
Journey
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
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Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.
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I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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