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Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands.
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We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don't wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
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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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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
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This is why it is good to remember: if you want to get high, don't drink whiskey; read Shakespeare, Tennyson, Keats, Neruda, Hopkins, Millay, Whitman, aloud and let your body sing.
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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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Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
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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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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
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If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.
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I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.
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Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Natalie Goldberg
Born:
January 4, 1948
(age 76)
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