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Writing Quotes by Brenda Ueland
- Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it…
- I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our…
- If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's…
- The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely…
- Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
- When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even…
- Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
- If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become convinced…
- If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at…
- everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will…
- the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
- Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still…
- I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy,…
- We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the…
- No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write,…
- The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all…
- The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude…
- ...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
- ...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
- 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…
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov