Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die. — Natalie Goldberg Death Copy Share Image
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg Creativity 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
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass… — Natalie Goldberg Ashamed 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 Education Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry I don't have brilliant reasons for beginning a novel. As you go along, you make up reasons to do what… — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you. — Natalie Goldberg Earth Copy Share Image
Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves… — Natalie Goldberg Change 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
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 Cancer Copy Share Image
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the… — 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
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
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 Attitude Copy Share Image
I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing… — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they… — Natalie Goldberg Alcoholics 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
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get… — Natalie Goldberg Artist 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 Life Copy Share Image
Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion.… — Natalie Goldberg Book 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
“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each… — Natalie Goldberg Body Copy Share Image
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to… — Natalie Goldberg Books Copy Share Image
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be… — Natalie Goldberg Earth Copy Share Image
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world. — Natalie Goldberg Heart Copy Share Image
Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the… — Natalie Goldberg Hope Copy Share Image
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Absurdity Copy Share Image
“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy,… — Natalie Goldberg Artist Copy Share Image
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Good sex Copy Share Image
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg Alive Copy Share Image
![“Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about…” quote by Natalie Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d8/natalie-goldberg-1741_book_let-s-say-i-ve-directed-that-writing-ene_1176445.png)
