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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.
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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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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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If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
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