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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Dignity
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Truth
Writing

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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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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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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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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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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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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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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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When you write, don't say, I'm going to write a poem. That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself say, I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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