Quotes by Natalie Goldberg

About Natalie Goldberg:

Natalie Goldberg is an American popular New Age author and speaker She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.
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You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

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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 by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine t...

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The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no pri...

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I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.

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Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I k...

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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

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It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bi...

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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.

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Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand how the writer moves, pauses, and sees. That's what being a...

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poems are small moments of enlightenment

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I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.

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Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

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Writing is the act of discovery.

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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

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I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hur...

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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often somethi...

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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

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Author Bio

  • NameNatalie Goldberg
  • Descriptionwriter
  • BornJanuary 4, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter