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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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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter the act of writing does.
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In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
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Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
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You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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