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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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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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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
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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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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 wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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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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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
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Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
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Wherein we discover that many of the rules for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
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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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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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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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