Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching i…

Natalie Goldberg
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. ✨ Natalie Goldberg (2016). Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, p.168, Shambhala Publications
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