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Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
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Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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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 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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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
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I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
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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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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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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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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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