Quotes by : Natalie Goldberg

Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don’t worry if it....

Begin with “I remember.” Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that.....

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then....

Writing... is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and....

poems are small moments of enlightenment

Don’t be tossed away by your monkey mind. You say you want to do something—“I really want to be....

I don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our....

Writing is the act of discovery.

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

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety....