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Indefinite plans get dubious results.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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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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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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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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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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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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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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We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
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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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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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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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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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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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[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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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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