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Natalie Goldberg

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Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Natalie Goldberg

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Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Writer

Total quotes: 4

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Tagged: Writing, Pain, Trauma, Healing, Honesty, expression, Self-Expression, vulnerability

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down Bones

Tagged: relax, Eliminating Stress, On Stress, Calming Down

“A perfect studio has always told me that the person is afraid of his own mind and is reflecting in his outward space an inward need for control. Creativity is just the opposite: it is a loss of control. ”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Tagged: Creativity, Creative Living, Messy, Losing Control, Writing

“Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. And don't worry too much about security. You will eventually have a deep security when you begin to do what you want. How many of us with our big salaries are actually secure anyway?”

— Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Tagged: Passion, Writing, Doing What You Love

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