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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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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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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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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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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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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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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.
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Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
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I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
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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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In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
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I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
Natalie Goldberg
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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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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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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