Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.
Natalie GoldbergChoose 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 GoldbergWomen need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
Natalie GoldbergLet's say I've directed that [writing] energy into writing my latest book but suddenly, I really want to write about an onion. I don't say to myself, "No, you have stay on the subject," because I know that the longer I stay on the subject the more boring I get. So, if my mind wants to write about an onion, it might be a deeper way to go into what I'm working on, even though it might seem irrelevant. This is how I've learned to follow my mind.
Natalie Goldberg