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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Live
Good
Enjoyment
Dies
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
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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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There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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When you write, don't say, I'm going to write a poem. That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself say, I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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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 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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
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