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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Ends
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Write

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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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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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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
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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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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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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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The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.
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Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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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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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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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 honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.
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Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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