Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
BRENDA UELANDAdvertising 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.
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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.
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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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…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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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.
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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.
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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible–villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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.
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we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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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.
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