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The problem is we think we exist.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Think
Thinking
Exist

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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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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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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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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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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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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave 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 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 still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
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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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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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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
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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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The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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