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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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Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them things they can’t forget stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
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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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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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The problem is we think we exist.
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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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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.
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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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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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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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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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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
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I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
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