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
block moving writing
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
sex moving writing
Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think.
moving home parent
It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it.
moving hands
keep your hand moving
moving forget universe
We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.
teacher moving passion
That daydreaming seemed important at the time, but when I asked my teacher Katagiri Roshi about it, he said, "Oh, it's just laziness. Get to work." But as for discipline, I don't even use that word. I think more about passion or love. What I've really learned is the way the mind moves, and how the mind works. Rather than discipline, I know how to seduce my mind.
along life poems process sane trying
It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.
book face failure great human love written
I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
passion layers way
Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.
love-you working-it ifs
If you love the work, it will love you back.
writing demand behinds
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
writing mind cracks
Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
writing discovery mind
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.
jobs keys poetry
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.