Natalie Goldberg Quotes

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

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• When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Remember
  • You
  • Know

• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • You
  • Find
  • Most

• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.

  

  Washed Out
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Perspective

• If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Movie
  • You
  • Learn

• The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Why
  • You

• The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Man
  • Black
  • You

• When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Doing

• Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Interesting
  • Beauty

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Today
  • You
  • Class

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

  

  Orlando Cepeda
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world, and my writing doesn't exist on a separate level. And if people know who I am and read my books, well, good; that way, if I have something more to say, then everyone benefits.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Silence

• I never, ever, ever had deltoids! Oh my God, when I'm doing exercises and I see them pop out, I'm like, Yes!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • God
  • Doing
  • See

• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality