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
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become… — 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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