Natalie Goldberg

Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger..

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is the act of discovery.

— Natalie Goldberg

A writer must say yes to life.

— Natalie Goldberg

keep your hand moving

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Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Understanding engenders care.”

— Natalie Goldberg

Creativity is no big deal.

— Natalie Goldberg

The problem is we think we exist.

— Natalie Goldberg

“Anything you do fully is an alone journey.”

— Natalie Goldberg

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

— Natalie Goldberg

I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

— Natalie Goldberg

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

— Natalie Goldberg

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

— Natalie Goldberg

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

— Natalie Goldberg

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle…

— Natalie Goldberg

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with…

— Natalie Goldberg

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away.…

— Natalie Goldberg

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it…

— Natalie Goldberg

It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

— Natalie Goldberg

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

— Natalie Goldberg

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

— Natalie Goldberg

At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl,…

— Natalie Goldberg

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry…

— Natalie Goldberg

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do…

— Natalie Goldberg

Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi…

— Natalie Goldberg

I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life…

— Natalie Goldberg

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who…

— Natalie Goldberg

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter…

— Natalie Goldberg

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

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

It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you…

— Natalie Goldberg

“One of my writing students sent me an article about Kincaid in The New York Times: “I’m not writing for anyone at…

— Natalie Goldberg

I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I…

— Natalie Goldberg

First, consider the pen you write with. It should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your…

— Natalie Goldberg

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose…

— Natalie Goldberg

We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your…

— Natalie Goldberg

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest…

— Natalie Goldberg

I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When…

— Natalie Goldberg