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Creativity is no big deal.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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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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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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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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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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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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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.
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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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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 West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
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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 honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
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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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The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
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So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.
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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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