“Just write. Just write. Just write. [...]
When we are in the heart of writing it doesn't matter where we are. We can write anyplace.”

— Natalie Goldberg , book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "Write anyplace". p.110, 111
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

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