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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Poetry
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
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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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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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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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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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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 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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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
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