“If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also… — Natalie Goldberg Time Copy Share Image
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal… — Natalie Goldberg Aim Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world. — Natalie Goldberg Books 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
Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go… — Natalie Goldberg Alcoholics 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 Life Copy Share Image
We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. — Natalie Goldberg Details 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
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Chaos 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
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
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
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct… — Natalie Goldberg Black Copy Share Image
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. — Natalie Goldberg Breaths Copy Share Image
If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you. — Natalie Goldberg Book 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
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it. — Natalie Goldberg Shut up Copy Share Image
I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. — Natalie Goldberg Alive 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
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
That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just… — Natalie Goldberg Daydreaming Copy Share Image
