I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It … - Natalie Goldberg

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They have our bundles split open in museums our dresses & shirts at auctions our languages on tape our stories in locked rare book libraries our dances on film The only part of us they can't steal is what we know.

Natalie Goldberg

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers that they are drinking, but because they are writers who are not writing.

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We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.

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