"The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart."

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Source : Natalie Goldberg (2009). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

Natalie Goldberg

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“I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.”

Source : "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
“Be careful not to turn others' lives into the mold for your own...we have a #â€Ž God who is a #â€Ž Creator not a #â€Ž Duplicator .”
“Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.”
“Physical conditioning from regular exercise is important. And we can do so much more to keep our bodies strong.”
“I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.”
“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeÂ—if I go ahead and finish it anywayÂ—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.”
“I rarely watch TV, and in the past two years, I've done three TV shows. It's quite interesting.”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

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