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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

Brenda Ueland

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.
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Children Doors Mother
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
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Knows Thinking Work
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).
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Editors Thinking Writing
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.
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Love Talking Three You
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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Fountain Ideas Knows
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Forever Power Thinking
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.
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Advertising People Writing
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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Coffee Strong Writing
Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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Creative Husband Murderer
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.
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People Talking Writing
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
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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Enthusiasm Feelings Passion
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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Fun People Writing
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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Believe Self Writing
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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Sometimes Thinking Two
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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Important Original Self Two Writing

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