“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make such enormous strides in so short a time.” — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best equipped to… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.” — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover,… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
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… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
