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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.
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I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
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Wherein we discover that many of the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
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I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.
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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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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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