We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
Natalie GoldbergI love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
Natalie GoldbergI read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.
Natalie GoldbergWe have to look at our own inertia, insecurities, self-hate, fear that, in truth, we have nothing valuable to say. When your writing blooms out of the back of this garbage compost, it is very stable. You are not running from anything. You can have a sense of artistic security. If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Natalie Goldberg