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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
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Brooklyn
New York
Literature
Moment
Moments
Giving
Great
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Present

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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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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
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We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
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Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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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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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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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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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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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[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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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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