After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. — Natalie Goldberg Business Copy Share Image
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness. — Natalie Goldberg Energy Copy Share Image
In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle… — Natalie Goldberg Able Copy Share Image
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 Important Copy Share Image
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 Attention 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
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice. — Natalie Goldberg Lifetime Copy Share Image
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back. — Natalie Goldberg Always running Copy Share Image
First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts,… — Natalie Goldberg Connections Copy Share Image
I have students that I tell, "If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around."… — Natalie Goldberg Agents Copy Share Image
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even… — Natalie Goldberg Acceptance 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
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
“We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on… — Natalie Goldberg Accept Copy Share Image
In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great… — Natalie Goldberg Healing 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
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. — Natalie Goldberg Forever Copy Share Image
“We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don’t learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about it.” — Natalie Goldberg Education Copy Share Image
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl,… — Natalie Goldberg Bigger Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg All kinds 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 Die Copy Share Image
Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances. — Natalie Goldberg Circumstances Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Correctness Copy Share Image
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a… — Natalie Goldberg Advantage 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
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 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
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. — Natalie Goldberg Hungry Copy Share Image
Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in. — Natalie Goldberg Bigs Copy Share Image
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create… — Natalie Goldberg Anxiety Copy Share Image
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart. — Natalie Goldberg Attention Copy Share Image
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. — Natalie Goldberg Critics Copy Share Image
I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate… — Natalie Goldberg Books 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 Direct Copy Share Image
