Natalie goldberg

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can...

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the...

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.