Alive Quote by Natalie Goldberg

“A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.” quote by Natalie Goldberg — Download Open image

“A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.”

Natalie Goldberg

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