“In order to write, you have to read other people. That’s how you get inspired. Those writers are your teachers. You’re studying the mind of the author you’re reading.”
– Natalie Goldberg, in The Writer, July 2014
“In order to write, you have to read other people. That’s how you get inspired. Those writers are your teachers. You’re studying the mind of the author you’re reading.”
– Natalie Goldberg, in The Writer, July 2014
“‘When you feel thrown off by a crisis, you say, “OK, so I can’t do anything.’ Then just sit. Read. Walk. Live.” Do things, she says, that feed your writing. Listening, after all, is the twin to writing.”
– Natalie Goldberg, The Writer, August 2013
photo of Avalanche Creek in Glacier National Park, by Leslie
“Writing is ninety percent listening. … you listen so deeply to the space around you that it fills you, and when you write, it pours out of you. If you can capture that reality around you, your writing needs nothing else. You don’t only listen to the person speaking to you across the table but simultaneously try to listen to the air, the chair, and the door.”
– Natalie Goldberg, in Writing Down the Bones