Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
Natalie GoldbergA responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Natalie GoldbergI don't think everyone wants to create the great American novel, but we all have a dream of telling our stories-of realizing what we think, feel, and see before we die. Writing is a path to meet ourselves and become intimate.
Natalie Goldberg