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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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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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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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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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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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Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
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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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I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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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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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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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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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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