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As writers we need to crack open language.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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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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Wherein we discover that many of the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
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I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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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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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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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
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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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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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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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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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In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
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