Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
BRENDA UELANDFamilies are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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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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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
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And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don’t, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.
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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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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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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years – the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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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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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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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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