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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Aching
Hungry
Wait
Waiting
Speak
Writing
Something

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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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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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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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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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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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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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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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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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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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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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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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