In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write. Natalie Goldberg More Quotes by Natalie Goldberg More Quotes From Natalie Goldberg As writers we need to crack open language. Natalie Goldberg crackslanguageneeds Creativity is no big deal. Natalie Goldberg dealscreativitybigs When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. Natalie Goldberg writing keep your hand moving Natalie Goldberg handsmoving Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table. Natalie Goldberg uptighttoolswriting Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger. Natalie Goldberg hamburgersmcdonaldswriting Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse. Natalie Goldberg shut-upusewriting Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. 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 wantworryneeds Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. Natalie Goldberg cuttingappreciationpeople One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters. Natalie Goldberg storieswritinginspirational Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious. Natalie Goldberg detailsconsciousself The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself. Natalie Goldberg failingwriting This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive. Natalie Goldberg inspirationwritingrunning 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 them. Natalie Goldberg writingbookpast Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth. Natalie Goldberg teachdignitywriting We have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Natalie Goldberg hatewritingrunning In writing with detail, you are turning to face the world. It is a deeply political act, because you are not staying in the heat of your own emotions. You are offering up some good solid bread for the hungry. Natalie Goldberg politicalofferingwriting A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander. Natalie Goldberg aliveresponsibilitypeople Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way. Natalie Goldberg greatnessviewsmind While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. Natalie Goldberg cancerwritingtwo
