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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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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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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
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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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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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The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.
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I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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