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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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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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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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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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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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