"...at last I understood that writing was this:……" — Brenda Ueland
"...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had."
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70 Quotes by Brenda Ueland
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold…
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to…
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Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is…
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of…
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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating…
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It…
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Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me...…
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I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how…
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Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They…
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the…
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
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When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It…
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm…
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites…
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Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
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