Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart. — Natalie Goldberg Connected Copy Share Image
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience. — Natalie Goldberg Cancer Copy Share Image
“My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.” — Natalie Goldberg Stole Copy Share Image
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. — Natalie Goldberg Appreciation Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Book 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things… — Natalie Goldberg Inspirational Copy Share Image
It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing… — Natalie Goldberg Feasibility Copy Share Image
If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't… — Natalie Goldberg Angel Copy Share Image
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us. — Natalie Goldberg Concert Copy Share Image
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the… — Natalie Goldberg Heating Copy Share Image
“If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also… — Natalie Goldberg Expectation Copy Share Image
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we… — Natalie Goldberg Accepting Copy Share Image
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do… — Natalie Goldberg Break Copy Share Image
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 Details Copy Share Image
I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life… — Natalie Goldberg Afternoon Copy Share Image
The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who… — Natalie Goldberg Chance Copy Share Image
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 Activity Copy Share Image
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 Awful Copy Share Image
There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every… — Natalie Goldberg Assurance 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 Alive Copy Share Image
“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always… — Natalie Goldberg Writer Copy Share Image
“...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an automobile. Separate… — Natalie Goldberg Abstract 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 Every moment 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 Beats Copy Share Image
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much… — Natalie Goldberg Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't… — Natalie Goldberg Excuse Copy Share Image
The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret,… — Natalie Goldberg Dangerous 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 Fear 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
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. — Natalie Goldberg Blade Copy Share Image
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction. — Natalie Goldberg American society Copy Share Image
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. — Natalie Goldberg Beginning 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
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting… — Natalie Goldberg Body Copy Share Image
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose… — Natalie Goldberg Fall Copy Share Image
Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at… — Natalie Goldberg More time Copy Share Image
