Natalie Goldberg was a poet for 13 years before she completed Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, a book that broke open the world of creativity and started a revolution in the way we practice writing in this country. Writing Down the Bones has sold more than 1 million copies and has been translated into 14 languages.
Since then, she has written many other books, including Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life, a book of reflections and writing exercises; the novel Banana Rose; Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World, about painting as a second art form; and Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft, which takes readers beyond writing practice to forming finished work. Her book Top of My Lungs, contains 40 poems, 20 of her paintings in color, and an essay, “How Poetry Saved My Life.”
Goldberg has been practicing Zen meditation and teaching seminars in writing as a practice for the more than 30 years. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops and she has a reputation as a great teacher.
What People are Saying About Natalie Goldberg
“The secret of creativity, Natalie Goldberg makes clear, is to subtract rules for writing, not add them. It’s a process of ‘uneducation’ rather than education. Proof that she knows what she’s talking about is abundant in her own sentences. They flow with speed and grace and accuracy and simplicity. It looks easy to a reader, but writers know it is the hardest writing of all.”
—Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“[Goldberg is] an author who knows how to zero in on the truth, and lead others there as well. If you’re serious about finding that voice inside yourself, Natalie Goldberg is a teacher you have to meet.”
—Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked)
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