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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them things they can’t forget stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
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Brooklyn
New York
Ends
Haunt
Stories
Released
Body
Obsession
Writing
Bodies
Things
Carry
Writers
Waiting
Forget
Obsessions

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