Writing Quote by Natalie Goldberg: I Write Because

 

“I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.”

 — Natalie Goldberg

(born January 4, 1948)

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg is an American popular author and speaker. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Natalie Goldberg: How Writers Must Think

 

“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand. We were here; we are human beings; this is how we lived. Let it be known, the earth passed before us. Our details are important. Otherwise, if they are not, we can drop a bomb and it doesn't matter. . . Recording the details of our lives is a stance against bombs with their mass ability to kill, against too much speed and efficiency. A writer must say yes to life, to all of life: the water glasses, the Kemp's half-and-half, the ketchup on the counter. It is not a writer's task to say, "It is dumb to live in a small town or to eat in a café when you can eat macrobiotic at home." Our task is to say a holy yes to the real things of our life as they exist – the real truth of who we are: several pounds overweight, the gray, cold street outside, the Christmas tinsel in the showcase, the Jewish writer in the orange booth across from her blond friend who has black children. We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.”

 — Natalie Goldberg

(born January 4, 1948)

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg is an American popular author and speaker. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Henry David Thoreau: How Vain it is to Sit down to Write

 “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” 

— Henry David Thoreau

(July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) 

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Wikipedia

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Writing Quotes by Natalie Goldberg: Writers End Up Writing About Their Obsessions

 

“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.”

 — Natalie Goldberg

(born January 4, 1948)

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg is an American popular author and speaker. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Natalie Goldberg: Write What Disturbs You

 

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

 — Natalie Goldberg

(born January 4, 1948)

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Natalie Goldberg is an American popular author and speaker. She is best known for a series of books which explore writing as Zen practice.Wikipedia

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Writing Quote by Stephen King: On Writing Style

“Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.”

— Stephen King

(Born September 21, 1947)

On Writing A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. Wikipedia 

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Writing Quote by Zadie Smith: I Want to Write Without Shame

"I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely."

– Zadie Smith

(Born 25 October 1975)

Zadie Adeline Smith FRSL is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth, immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Wikipedia

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