the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
“[4It is hard to be carefree when you have many anxieties. But the more you have, the more necessary it is to feel carefree… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five- or six-mile walk helps. And one must go alone and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed:… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
“In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share
