Natalie Goldberg Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Cutting, Darkness

  Natalie Goldberg (2008). “Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

• Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

• Katagiri Roshi says: "Poor artists. They suffer very much. They finish a masterpiece and they are not satisfied. They want to go on and do another." Yes, but it's better to go on and do another if you have the urge than to start drinking and become alcoholic or eat a pound of good fudge and get fat.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Artist, Suffering

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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