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
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. — 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 love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on… — 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
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying… — 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
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make… — 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
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the… — 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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