Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph. — 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
