Natalie Goldberg - Work Quotes

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After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.

Natalie Goldberg

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.

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. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.

Natalie Goldberg

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work.

Natalie Goldberg