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Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg

American Author

Born: 1948

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. Natalie Goldberg

Lie Stress Important Breath Nothing Down State Everything Earth Emergency Forgetting Just Ignorant Believes Basically

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die. Natalie Goldberg

You Walk Talk Die

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. Natalie Goldberg

Home Job Corners Our Earth Writers Come Listen Four

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. Natalie Goldberg

When you are present, the world is truly alive. Natalie Goldberg

You World Alive Truly Present

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. Natalie Goldberg

You Too Much Will Pay Nice Publish Too Toss Write Attention Continue Very Just Want Much Much Attention Away

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure. Natalie Goldberg

You Writing First Lose Control Say Stay Structure Write Students Know First Things Encourage Want Break Things

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. Natalie Goldberg

World Vision Job Give Writer Reader Larger

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. Natalie Goldberg

You Quality Writing Matter Correctness Write Does Act

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore. Natalie Goldberg

Bookstore Parlor Sorrow Ice Cream

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