“ As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This… Natalie Goldberg
“ I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good… Natalie Goldberg
“ Don’t cross out. (That is editing as you write. Even if you write something you didn’t mean to write, leave it.) Don’t worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. (Don’t even care about staying within… Natalie Goldberg
“ Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. Natalie Goldberg
“ Writing, too, is 90 percent listening. You listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you wrote, it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing… Natalie Goldberg
“ No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from Alabama, Florida, South Carolina a mile away even if they make no exact refere… Natalie Goldberg
“ Writers live twice. They go along with their regular life, are as fas as anyone in the grocery store, crossing the street, getting dressed for work in the morning. But there's another part of them tha… Natalie Goldberg
“ 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. Natalie Goldberg
“ What crannies of untouched perception can you explore? What autumn was it that moon entered your life? When was it that you picked blueberries at their quintessential moment? How long did you wait for… Natalie Goldberg
“ We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us. Natalie Goldberg
“ Write in different places—for example, in a laundromat, and pick up on the rhythm of the washing machines. Write at bus stops, in cafés. Write what is going on around you. Natalie Goldberg
“ Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back. Natalie Goldberg
“ Add to the list anytime you think of something. Then when you sit down to write, you can just grab a topic from that list and begin. Natalie Goldberg
“ I wish I had another chance to write that school composition, 'What I Did Last Summer.' When I wrote it in fifth grade, I was scared and just recorded: 'It was interesting. It was nice. My summer was… Natalie Goldberg
“ Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling and trying to get control of what you’re saying.) Natalie Goldberg
“ Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wi… Natalie Goldberg
