Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

by Natalie Goldberg

“Trust in love and it will take you where you need to go.” I want to add, “Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.”

Sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95. It has replaceable cartridges.

more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.

that's rude

I feel good because I don’t care that she sees how I really am. I’m glad. I want someone to know me. We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful

THE PROBLEM IS we think we exist.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a

Stay fluid behind those black-and-white words. They are not you. They were a great moment going through you.

but it’s better to be crazy than false.

You will take leaps naturally if you follow your thoughts, because the mind spontaneously takes great leaps.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

Build up a tolerance for positive, honest support.

There was some comfort in that, in knowing what I didn’t want.

The time wasn’t right then, but like our obsessions, our dreams do reoccur. We might as well pay attention to them and act on them. It is a way to penetrate into our lives; otherwise we might drift with our dreams forever.

You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.