“If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice,… — Natalie Goldberg Life 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
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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into… — Natalie Goldberg Ache 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 Writing Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Cancer 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
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
Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse. — Natalie Goldberg Excuse 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 Fool Copy Share Image
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 Doing you 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
Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good. — Natalie Goldberg Effort Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Coming home Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Bigger Copy Share Image
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us. — Natalie Goldberg Concerts Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it — Natalie Goldberg Care Copy Share Image
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. — Natalie Goldberg Blades 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
“OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image