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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Important
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Magnificent
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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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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
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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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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
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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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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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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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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
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