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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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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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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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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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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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You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
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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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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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Creativity is no big deal.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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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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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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