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.
BRENDA UELANDYour motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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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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Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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…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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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.
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… 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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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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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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I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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