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I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
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Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
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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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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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Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
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I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.
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Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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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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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.
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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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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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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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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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The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
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Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
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Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life.
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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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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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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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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
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