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

Brenda Ueland

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Diaries Honest Writing
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.
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Children Creativity Writing
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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Sometimes Thinking Two
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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Important Original Self Two Writing
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk.
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Coffee Strong Writing
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Love You Teacher Thinking
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.
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Enthusiasm Feelings Passion
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.
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Effort Lilies People
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Acceptance Inspirational Unique
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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Grows Ideas Listening
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.
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Feelings Secret Self
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Creative Creative Power Live Present
You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.
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Believe Self Writing
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way

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

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