Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldbergis an American popular New Age author and speaker She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
mind ordinary remember
We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.
A writer must say yes to life.
gratitude feet air
We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.
summer falling-in-love fun
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.
determination powerful writing
The muscles of writing are not so visible, but they are just as powerful: determination, attention, curiosity, a passionate heart.
enough
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
inspirational journey maps
Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.
jobs home earth
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
cancer memoir
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
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.
healing writing self
In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
cancer fabulous
I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
memories writing creativity
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.