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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.

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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Feelings People Writing
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
… when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. … Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
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Race Thinking Two
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee.
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Coffee Skulls Thinking
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
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Ends Fixed Thinking
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.
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Belief More Slowly Unstimulated
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
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Drawing Thinking Writing
Be bold, free, and truthful.
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Freedom Truth Truthful
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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Creative Husband Murderer
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them.
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Artist Peace People
If you write something and they all tell you it is bad – editors, critics, everybody – think it over and you may become convinced that they are right (though you are not to be ashamed or discouraged for a minute, but keep on writing).
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Editors Thinking Writing
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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Active Religion Science Today

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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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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