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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
Natalie Goldberg
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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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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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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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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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