I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers....… — 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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
“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 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 you are… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
“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 Image
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