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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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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
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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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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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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.
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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst kind. If someone writes something great, it's just more clarity in the world for all of us.
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Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
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In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
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