Quote

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

Natalie Goldberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Natalie Goldberg
Age: 77
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Walks
Someone
Accepts
Many
Myths
Thankful
Myth
Sees
Walk
Accepting

More quotes by Natalie Goldberg

Image
I am free to write the worst junk in the world.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life
Natalie Goldberg
Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
In the past few years I've assigned books to be read before a student attends one of my weeklong seminars. I have been astonished by how few people -- people who supposedly want to write -- read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
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
Image
I have students that I tell, If your book doesn't sell or you can't publish it, write another book. Quit sitting around. The publishing world is a business, but it's not any big deal. An editor is not your guru. Your agent is not your guru.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
The difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
The problem is we think we exist.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
When you are present, the world is truly alive.
Natalie Goldberg
Image
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