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To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
— Natalie Goldberg
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
— Natalie Goldberg
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
— Natalie Goldberg
Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.
— Natalie Goldberg
Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
— Natalie Goldberg
All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
— Natalie Goldberg
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
— Natalie Goldberg
Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger..
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If you love the work, it will love you back.
— Natalie Goldberg
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 water.
— Natalie Goldberg
That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.
— Natalie Goldberg
Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
— Natalie Goldberg
I think talent is like a water table under the earth - you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
— Natalie Goldberg
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.
— Natalie Goldberg
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
— Natalie Goldberg
As writers we need to crack open language.
— Natalie Goldberg
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
— Natalie Goldberg
I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
— Natalie Goldberg
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.
— Natalie Goldberg
Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along - consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.
— Natalie Goldberg
Poetry has never been a favorite American pastime.
— Natalie Goldberg
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
— Natalie Goldberg
Keep your hand moving. (Don't pause to reread the line you have just written. That's stalling and trying to get control of what you're saying.)
— Natalie Goldberg
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
— Natalie Goldberg
Writing is the act of discovery.
— Natalie Goldberg
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
— Natalie Goldberg
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
— Natalie Goldberg
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
— Natalie Goldberg
And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.
— Natalie Goldberg
When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind
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Creativity is no big deal.
— Natalie Goldberg
Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
— Natalie Goldberg
I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.
— Natalie Goldberg
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
— Natalie Goldberg
It's pretty nice to be talented. If you are, enjoy, but it won't take you that far. Work takes you a lot further.
— Natalie Goldberg
keep your hand moving
— Natalie Goldberg
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
— Natalie Goldberg
Anything we fully do is an alone journey.
— Natalie Goldberg
And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.
— Natalie Goldberg
If something comes up in your writing that is scary or naked, dive right into it. It probably has lots of energy.
— Natalie Goldberg
THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.
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A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
— Natalie Goldberg
Don't let yourself be thrown away ... Continue on no matter what ... Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
— Natalie Goldberg
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 wait. Make the time now.
— Natalie Goldberg
When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.
— Natalie Goldberg
The problem is we think we exist.
— Natalie Goldberg
Once you connect with your mind, you are who you are and you're free.
— Natalie Goldberg
Inspiration means breathing in. Breathing in God.
— Natalie Goldberg
It is also hard to write about a city we just moved to; it's not yet in our body.
— Natalie Goldberg
We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.
— Natalie Goldberg
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
— Natalie Goldberg
Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier.
— Natalie Goldberg
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
— Natalie Goldberg
can't take myself too seriously when I open
— Natalie Goldberg
Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.
— Natalie Goldberg
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
— Natalie Goldberg
Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it.
— Natalie Goldberg
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
— Natalie Goldberg
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
— Natalie Goldberg
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
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Own anything you want in your writing and then let it go.
— Natalie Goldberg
Anything you do fully is an alone journey.
— Natalie Goldberg
And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.
— Natalie Goldberg
Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
— Natalie Goldberg
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.
— Natalie Goldberg
Ninety percent of writing is about listening.
— Natalie Goldberg
Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying.
— Natalie Goldberg
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
— Natalie Goldberg
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.
— Natalie Goldberg
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
— Natalie Goldberg
Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin.
— Natalie Goldberg
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.
— Natalie Goldberg
Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.
— Natalie Goldberg
We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
— Natalie Goldberg
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
— Natalie Goldberg
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
— Natalie Goldberg
My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
— Natalie Goldberg
A writer must say yes to life.
— Natalie Goldberg
When you are present, the world is truly alive.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
— Natalie Goldberg
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
— Natalie Goldberg
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
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Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
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Understanding engenders care.
— Natalie Goldberg
When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
— Natalie Goldberg
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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poems are small moments of enlightenment
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Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.
— Natalie Goldberg
We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
— Natalie Goldberg
In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.
— Natalie Goldberg