Cancer Quote by Natalie Goldberg

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

— Natalie Goldberg

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.

— Meg Rosoff

“Essays in Zen Buddhism”

— Alan Wilson Watts

“Zen is also the art of disciplining oneself to fully live life in every way possible on a daily basis.”

— Alexis G. Roldan

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was…

— Natalie Goldberg

You're part of the human fabric of experience. You don't have to have cancer to write about cancer. You don't have to have somebody…

— Regina Spektor

“There’s a chasm between writing about yourself and writing about your personal life. A lot of young writers want to turn their lives into…

— Billy Marshall Stoneking

My life wasn't always smooth sailing. Two members of my family were diagnosed with cancer, so I spent a lot of time in hospitals…

— Hannah Tinti

“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it had a…

— Ian Tuhovsky

“life had been building potential, potential that would now go unrealized. I had planned to do so much, and I had come so close.…

— Paul Kalanithi

“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths, form complex…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton