Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen…

Natalie Goldberg
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Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it's only for ten minutes. That's okay. To write feels better than all the excuses. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.217, Shambhala Publications
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