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 UELANDTo 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.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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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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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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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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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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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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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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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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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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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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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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