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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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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case it was going to end soon. So, I wrote that and it was very comforting to have that practice in the afternoons in my living room. I just wrote about my life.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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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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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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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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Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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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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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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