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Top 200 Natalie Goldberg Quotes (2024 Update)

Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Writing is the act of discovery.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Shut up and write anyway. Don’t use anything as an excuse.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “After you have finished a piece of work, the work is then none of your business. Go on and do something else.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “In writing practice, there’s no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “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.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don’t worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “When you are present, the world is truly alive.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and are, you hardly need anything else.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “I am free to write the worst junk in the world.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Failure is what we’re all running from, we’re always running toward success with failure at our back.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Anything we fully do is an alone journey.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure – just a big field to wander in.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before, Each time is a new journey with no maps.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “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.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “If you love the work, it will love you back.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “When you write, don’t say, “I’m going to write a poem.” That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, “I am free to write the worst junk in the world.””
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “I think talent is like a water table under the earth – you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “We should notice that we are already supported at every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Be awake to the details around you, but don’t be self-conscious.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “A writer must say yes to life.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I’m sorry there are no true excuses. This is our life. Step forward. Maybe it’s only for ten minutes. That’s okay. To write feels better than all the excuses.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Indefinite plans get dubious results.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “We shouldn’t forget that the universe moves with us, is at our back with everything we do.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Writing is not a McDonald’s Hamburger...”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.”
Natalie Goldberg Quote: “We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.”
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