Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with. — Natalie Goldberg Great love Copy Share Image
I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky. — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious. — Natalie Goldberg Awake Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — 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'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 still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand. — Natalie Goldberg Computer Copy Share Image
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. — Natalie Goldberg Breath Copy Share Image
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of… — Natalie Goldberg Being 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 Books Copy Share Image
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. — Natalie Goldberg Hungry 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 Alive Copy Share Image
Can we walk that thin line between constant change and continuation? And in the middle of this flux, feel gratitude but not… — Natalie Goldberg Change 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 Book 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 Bread 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 Ancient 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 Answers Copy Share Image
I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us… — Natalie Goldberg Dumb 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 Being jealous Copy Share Image
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 Able Copy Share Image
I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I… — Natalie Goldberg Coming home Copy Share Image
“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 Writer Copy Share Image
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 Chocolate Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Biting Copy Share Image
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 Artistic Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Appearance 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
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg Care Copy Share Image
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it. — Natalie Goldberg Shut up Copy Share Image
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