"If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're……" — Natalie Goldberg
"If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you."
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118 Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
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This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at 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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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no…
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