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Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Natalie Goldberg quotes

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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 prisoners... Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg quote: "My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they..."
My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me. Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg quote: "Read books. They are good for us."
Read books. They are good for us. Natalie Goldberg
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. Natalie Goldberg
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 know. Natalie Goldberg
We are searching for the core of our lives; our culture intuits that writing, that ancient activity, might be the pathway...Awakening does not feed ego's needs and desires; it pulverizes the self. Our society couldn't knowingly bear such reduction, so we've tricked ourselves into the same path but call it writing. Natalie Goldberg
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
Natalie Goldberg quote: "To encounter a fine bookand have time to read itis a wonderful..."
To encounter a fine bookand have time to read itis a wonderful thing. Natalie Goldberg
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 something strong comes out. Natalie Goldberg
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel. Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg quote: "Anything you do fully is an alone journey."
Anything you do fully is an alone journey. Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg quote: "Anything we fully do is an alone journey."
Anything we fully do is an alone journey. Natalie Goldberg
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. Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg quote: "After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none..."
After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else. Natalie Goldberg
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands. Natalie Goldberg

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