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Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

    Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

    we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

    Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - … 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. Download This Image

    … 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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. Download This Image

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

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.

    These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: “I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget.” But they have no slow, big ideas.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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).

    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).

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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

    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

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND

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