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Creativity is no big deal.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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As writers we need to crack open language.
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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
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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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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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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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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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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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You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
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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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Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
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If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.
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