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.
BRENDA UELANDWriting is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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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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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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the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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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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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.
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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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If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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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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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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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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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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