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Brenda Ueland Quotes: "This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say."

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "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 every day."

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 every day.




Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters."

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life."

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.




Brenda Ueland Quotes: "We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious."

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another."

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty."

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.




Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands."

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good."

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude."

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing."

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person."

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.




Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering."

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present."

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it."

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.




Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two."

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "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 wasn't meant."

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 wasn't meant.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining."

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express."

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next."

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be."

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come."

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life."

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "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 keep on writing."

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 keep on writing.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day."

We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck."

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "All children have creative power."

All children have creative power.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Consistency is the horror of the world."

Consistency is the horror of the world.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination."

The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had."

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is."

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually."

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good"

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing."

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "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 our health improves."

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 our health improves.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Be bold, free, and truthful."

Be bold, free, and truthful.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self."

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here."

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people."

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you."

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain."

You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch."

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time."

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role."

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot."

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision."

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything."

There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.



Brenda Ueland Quotes: "The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny."

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.