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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
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Alone
Anything
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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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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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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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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In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
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Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
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Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
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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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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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