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Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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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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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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First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.
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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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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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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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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
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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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