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When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Truly
Present
Alive
World

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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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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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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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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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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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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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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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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
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Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
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