The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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