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.
BRENDA UELANDYou 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.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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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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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o’clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve.
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I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out.” And if you have no such friend,–and you want to write,–well, then you must imagine one.
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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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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.
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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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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
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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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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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