Quotes about writ
writing self ego
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
writing care nobody-cares
Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it
writing world junk
I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
writing uptight tables
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.
writing
I consider writing a legitimate Zen practice.
writing
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.
writing failing
The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.
writing energy direct
I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.
writing thinking soda-pop
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.
writing house chocolate
It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes.
writing want firsts
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
writing voice people
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
writing goal anxiety
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
writing acceptance order
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
writing quality doe
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
writing way
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
writing discovery
Writing is the act of discovery.
writing play fearless
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
writing computer pens
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
writing down-and shut-up
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
writing waiting speak
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
writing thinking practice
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.
writing heart secret
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
writing shut-up
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
writing meditation mind
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
writing thinking tennis
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
writing bothering-you hands
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
writing waiting stories
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
writing kind all-kinds
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.
writing hands joy
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.
writing love-is things-in-life
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything. Taylor Swift
writing wish mail
Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.
writing ive-learned made
I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.