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 UELANDI 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.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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.
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So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.
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You Do Not Know Is in You- an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.
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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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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.
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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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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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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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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.
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The only way to love a person is…by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.
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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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