If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down… — 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,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as:… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know… — 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
