Natalie Goldberg
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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1986
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
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1990
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Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
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2002
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Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
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1993
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The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
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2013
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Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft
20 editions
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2000
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The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
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2004
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Banana Rose
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1995
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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
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2018
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Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
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1997
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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to kill, against too much speed and efficiency. A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp's half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer's task to say, "It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home." Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are: several pounds overweight, the gray, cold street outside, the Christmas tinsel in the showcase, the Jewish writer in the orange booth across from her blond friend who has black children. We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.”
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
― Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Polls
September is one of our non-fiction months. The subject matter is open so I'm providing a mixed bag for the vote. This poll will be open until Wednesday, July 31.
Thunder and Lightning
Natalie Goldberg

The Children of Henry VIII
Alison Weir

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder
Holly Tucker

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Dee Brown

The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester

Gods, Graves, and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology
C.W. Ceram

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