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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.

Brenda Ueland

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Forever Power Thinking
But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible–villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word
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Believe Ordinary World
… 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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Race Thinking Two
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.
BRENDA UELAND

Children Doors Mother
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
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Effort Lilies People
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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Horse Jobs Morning
I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
BRENDA UELAND

Children Flower Memories
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Creative Creative Power Live Present
…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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Feelings People Writing
Be bold, free, and truthful.
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Freedom Truth Truthful
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.
BRENDA UELAND

Alive Believe Listening
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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Belief More Slowly Unstimulated
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
BRENDA UELAND

Art Go Letting Mistake
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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Credit Doctor More Morning Office Realize
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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Express Human Talent
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

…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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