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Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Anything
Writing
Shut
Anyway
Excuse
Use
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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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
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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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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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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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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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Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
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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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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
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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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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
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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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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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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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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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