If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. … - Natalie Goldberg

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Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

Natalie Goldberg

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

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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.

Alcoholics, Drinking, Wonder, Writers, Writing

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Writing, Goal, Anxiety, Pass, Day, Lives

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

Enormous, Moment, Moments

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Hungry, Say, Speak, Wait, Waiting, Writing

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.

Acceptance, Eight, Wait, Writing