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  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.
  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.
  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.
  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.
  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.
  • Brenda Ueland Quote - 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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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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  • 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is. Download This Image

    You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.

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

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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 - Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

    Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good.

    Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

    When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram 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.

    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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  • 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 - To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power. Download This Image

    To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power.

    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 - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    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 - Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters. Download This Image

    Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

    BRENDA UELAND