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

Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Brooklyn
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We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
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I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.
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Creativity is no big deal.
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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
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If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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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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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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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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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.
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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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You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
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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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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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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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