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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.

Brenda Ueland

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
BRENDA UELAND

Esteem Self Trying
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.
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Lazy Self Writing
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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Forever Power Thinking
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
…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
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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Change Thinking Work
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
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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Against Complete Deaaded Presently
Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
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Drawing Thinking Writing
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
… 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
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.
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Listening People Tired
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.
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Important Original Self Two Writing
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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Love Talking Three You

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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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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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.