“Anything we fully do is an alone journey. […] You are alone when you write a book. Accept that and take in any love and support that is given to you, but don't have expectations of how it is supposed to be.”

—  Natalie Goldberg, book Writing Down the Bones

Epilogue. p.179, 180
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

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