Natalie Goldberg Quotes

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Most of the time, writing is a lot of fun, and not a small amount of self-medication.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Don't think it, ink it.

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

If I don't get in the studio, I don't have no therapy.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.