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Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Novelist
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Brooklyn
New York
Physically
Shut
Talk
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Writing

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Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.
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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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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
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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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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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[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust that. When you were screaming on the page. Maybe that doesn't make a whole book but that is the true seed.
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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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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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I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.
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While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
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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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Creativity is no big deal.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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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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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
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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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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
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