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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them things they can’t forget stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
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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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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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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
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