Natalie Goldberg Quotes - Page 5

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• 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.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Keys, Poetry

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. We should not be ashamed of this. It is good. It's like drinking water.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Drinking, Water, Should

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

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  Book, Reading, Glasses

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Mind, Way, Intimate

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• Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Ice Cream, Sorrow

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Thinking, Poetry, Dumb

  Natalie Goldberg (1990). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life”, Bantam

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• In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

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  Writing, World, Steps

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.131, Shambhala Publications

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• First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thought, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash.

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  Energy, Connections, Three

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Writing is not a McDonald's Hamburger.

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  Writing, Mcdonalds, Hamburgers

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

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  Self, Details, Conscious

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

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  Change, Opportunity, Ideas

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• Original details are very ordinary, except to the mind that sees extraordinariness. it's not that we need to go to the Hopi mesas to see greatness; we need to view what we already have in a different way.

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  Greatness, Views, Mind

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

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  Writing, Shut Up, Ends

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• In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.

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  Book, Writing, Past

  Natalie Goldberg (2001). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft”, Bantam

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• 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.

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  Writing, Meditation, Mind

  "Author Natalie Goldberg on the Zen of Living, Writing and Eating". Interview with Jean Fain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Months, Fourteen

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

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  Book, Encounters, Wonderful

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• In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Cancer, Writing

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Cancer, Writing, Mean

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.

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  Practice, Matter, Next

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Home, Earth

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• Let's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Book, Writing, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Quality, Doe

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• Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Effort, Swagger, Matter

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