Cracks Quote by Natalie Goldberg Download Open image “As writers we need to crack open language.” — Natalie Goldberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cracks Inspirational Language Needs Writing
“language – particularly the language writers use – cannot be set in stone. It is a living, organic, ever-changing thing.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.” — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a… — Gloria Steinem Lynn Gilbert Copy Share Image
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“We heard about people who go back to their roots. That is good, but don't get stuck in the root. There is the branch,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my… — Natalie Goldberg 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 time to… — Natalie Goldberg 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 steak bones… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“When you draw and pay attention to what is, it's a form of being present. This inspires the mind, makes it happy, and the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg 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 in case… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
Interesting, isn’t it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? (Savitar) They’re on crack. (Fury) Anyone else on crack? (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You boys know what tropism is, it's what makes a plant grow toward the light. Everything aspires to the light. You don't have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
What am I doing with my life am I living it or am I just going to some hum drum job that I don't… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?'… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
