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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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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
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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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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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We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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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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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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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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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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The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.
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