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

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
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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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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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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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Creativity is no big deal.
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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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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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 not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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