We are each a concert reverberating with our whole lives and reflecting and amplifying the world around us.
Natalie GoldbergWriting practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams, fantasies, and ordinary thoughts. Let us to feel the texture of them and not be afraid of them.Writing is still the wildest thing I know.
Natalie GoldbergYou don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.
Natalie GoldbergIt is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.
Natalie GoldbergI wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.
Natalie Goldberg