Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind…The mind is raw, full of… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is the branch,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life in case… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
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… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share
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