Top 186 Quotes & Sayings by Natalie Goldberg - Page 4

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

I think book publishing is fun, but I also know I've been very lucky.

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

Because I've been doing my practice for so long, I knew what to do even under really hard circumstances.

I don't know anything but writing practice, and so what I really do is direct that energy as if it were flowing down a river.