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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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I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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Indefinite plans get dubious results.
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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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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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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
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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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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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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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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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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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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'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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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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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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To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
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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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