Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing. — 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
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — 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
So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is… — 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
everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has… — 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
