Natalie Goldberg Short Quotes

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When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.

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Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

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The only difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.

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When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind.

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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

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Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

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

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When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.

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If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.

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

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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

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The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

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

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

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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

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We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

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We shouldn't forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.

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Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

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The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.

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Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

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Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

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One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

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Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

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We must remember that everything is ordinary and extraordinary. It is our minds that either open or close.

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We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.

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I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

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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.

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We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

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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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