Natalie Goldberg - Love Quotes

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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a lover is: stepping out of yourself, stepping into someone else's skin.

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Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

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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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The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

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I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

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We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

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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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