Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Absurdity 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
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die. — Natalie Goldberg Walks 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
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
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
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
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Failing 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
I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky. — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow… — Natalie Goldberg Alive 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 Life Copy Share Image
The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having… — Natalie Goldberg Able Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal… — Natalie Goldberg Arrogant Copy Share Image
Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.… — Natalie Goldberg Attention 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
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
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
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
Tulips come up in spring for no reason. Of course, you planted bulbs and now in April the earth warms up. But… — Natalie Goldberg April Copy Share Image
I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you… — Natalie Goldberg Dream 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
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
