Natalie Goldberg Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Waiting, Stories

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.49, Shambhala Publications

• This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Responsibility, Waiting, Forever

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.41, Open Road Media

• Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Waiting, Speak

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.168, Shambhala Publications

• 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.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Acceptance, Eight

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.50, Open Road Media

• Sometimes people say to me, “I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents,” and so on. I say to them, “There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week."

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Writing, Kids

  "Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 48, 2010.

• This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don't want to run and you resist every step of the three miles, but you do it anyway. You practice whether you want to or not. You don't wait around for inspiration and a deep desire to run ... That's how writing is too ... One of the main aims in writing practice is to learn to trust your own mind and body; to grow patient and nonaggressive.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Inspiration, Writing

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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