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Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

Brenda Ueland

And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.
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Ineffectiveness Instead might Sloth Women
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers…. Think if Tiffany’s made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!
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Incandescent Messenger Think Yourself
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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Creative Husband Murderer
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.
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Advertising People Writing
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
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
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 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.
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Change Thinking Work
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
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 for months.
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Fun People Writing
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
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
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Forever Power Thinking
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
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful

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