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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off. Download This Image

    Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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

    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

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Be bold, free, and truthful.

    Be bold, free, and truthful.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - …at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Download This Image

    …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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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! Download This Image

    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!

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - … 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. Download This Image

    … 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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.

    Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: ‘Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!’ you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

    If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: ‘Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!’ you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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).

    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).

    BRENDA UELAND