“In a rainstorm, everyone quickly runs down the street with umbrellas, raincoats, newspapers over their heads. Writers go back outside in the rain with a notebook in front of them and a pen in hand. They look at the puddles, watch them fill, watch the rain splash in them.”

— Natalie Goldberg, book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "Living twice". p.53
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

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