Brenda Ueland quotes

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. (Brenda Ueland)
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. View quote
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All children have creative power. View quote
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. View quote
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So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. View quote
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next. View quote
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. View quote
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Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters. View quote
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. View quote
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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers. View quote
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No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good. (Brenda Ueland)
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. View quote
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Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing. View quote
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands. View quote
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Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. View quote
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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck. View quote
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. View quote
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... writing is not a performance but a generosity. View quote
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