"The aim is to burn through to first……" — Natalie Goldberg
"The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel."
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118 Quotes by Natalie Goldberg
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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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