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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Small
Moments
Poems
Enlightenment

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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.
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When you write, don't say, I'm going to write a poem. That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself say, I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
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Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
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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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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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The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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