When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Art Copy Share Image
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. — Natalie Goldberg Creativity Copy Share Image
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die. — Natalie Goldberg Death 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
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 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
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. — Natalie Goldberg 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg 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
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
I told all kinds of stories about going to Japan, about playing ball with my father... I wanted to record my life… — Natalie Goldberg 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 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
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 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
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers… — Natalie Goldberg Life Copy Share Image
“... I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get… — Natalie Goldberg Artist Copy Share Image
This is what metaphor is. It is not saying that an ant is an elephant. Perhaps; both are alive. No. Metaphor is… — Natalie Goldberg Alive Copy Share Image
It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion.… — Natalie Goldberg Book Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg 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
Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. — Natalie Goldberg Funny Copy Share Image
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle. — Natalie Goldberg Differences Copy Share Image
“OK, now write for ten minutes, keep the hand moving, tell me what you carry.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. — Natalie Goldberg Enjoyment Copy Share Image
![“Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about…” quote by Natalie Goldberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d8/natalie-goldberg-1741_book_let-s-say-i-ve-directed-that-writing-ene_1176445.png)
