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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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Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
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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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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.
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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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Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
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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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Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.
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There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.
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That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
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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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Natalie Goldberg
Born:
January 4, 1948
(age 75)
Bio:
Natalie Goldberg is an American popular New Age author and speaker She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.
Known for:
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
Wild mind (1990)
Old Friend from Far Away (2002)
Long Quiet Highway (1993)
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