Natalie Goldberg Quotes

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

I've been very fortunate to be part of projects that are really big and broad.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

I don't have a publisher yet, so I'm not in the process of that next stage and I don't know what that's going to look like. So I feel like I finished stage one [with my book].

I feel like I have just been really, really lucky to meet some of the most successful and great actors alive today.

It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.

I have actually been very blessed in my career.

Ages ago, when I published 'Amelia's Notebook,' I'd sent it to traditional publishers I'd been working with, but nobody knew what to do with it. Tricycle was this small publisher who didn't know any better, and they took a chance.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

I've been a very lucky actor.

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion.

I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.