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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
New York
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Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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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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The problem is we think we exist.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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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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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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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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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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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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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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We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
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Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.
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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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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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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.
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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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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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