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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

  • 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 - Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

    Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

    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 - 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.

    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
  • 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 - the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

    the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

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

    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.

    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 - 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 - 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.

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brenda Ueland Quote - The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.

    The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.

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

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

    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.

    BRENDA UELAND

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