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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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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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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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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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