Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
BRENDA UELANDSince you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
BRENDA UELANDI found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months.
BRENDA UELANDThe best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
BRENDA UELANDTry to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
BRENDA UELANDI 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 UELANDBut 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 UELANDwe like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
BRENDA UELANDOrthodox 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.
BRENDA UELANDCreative 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 UELANDSometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
BRENDA UELANDBe bold, free, and truthful.
BRENDA UELAND…at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
BRENDA UELANDWrite a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
BRENDA UELAND… 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 UELANDNow 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 UELANDInspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
BRENDA UELAND