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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
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Brooklyn
New York
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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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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
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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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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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 I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
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The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.
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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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