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> [Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/most-of-the-methods-of-training-the-conscious-side-of-the-writer-the/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

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## More by Dorothea Brande

> [In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/in-the-long-run-it-makes-little-difference-how-cleverly-others-are/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/my-own-experience-has-been-that-there-is-no-field-where-one-who-is-in/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/all-that-is-necessary-to-break-the-spell-of-inertia-and-frustration/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/the-wright-brothers-flew-through-the-smoke-screen-of-impossibility/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/to-guarantee-success-act-as-if-it-were-impossible-to-fail/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/there-are-seeds-of-self-destruction-in-all-of-us-that-will-bear-only/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/i-suspect-that-every-teacher-hears-the-same-complaints-but-that-being/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/fiction-supplies-the-only-philosophy-that-may-readers-know-it/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/all-that-is-necessary-to-break-the-spell-of-inertia-and-frustration-2/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/criticism-and-rejection-are-not-personal-insults-but-your-artistic/)

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> [The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/the-worst-effect-of-party-is-its-tendency-to-generate-narrow-false/)

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> [Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/most-of-the-methods-of-training-the-conscious-side-of-the-writer-the/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/the-genius-keeps-all-his-days-the-vividness-and-intensity-of-interest/)

[Dorothea Brande](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothea-brande/)

> [it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/it-is-the-sum-of-small-things-successfully-done-that-lifts-a-life-out/)

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> [Act as though it is impossible to fail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothea-brande/act-as-though-it-is-impossible-to-fail/)

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