If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — 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 do, or doing well what we have undertaken as our personal contribution to the world's work, at least by way of an earnestly followed avocation, there will be a core of unhappiness in our lives which… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share
“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 his field, or to see in them evidence that the troubled student has not the true vocation. Yet it is these very pupils who are most obviously gifted who suffer from these disabilities, and the more… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share
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 of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share
