Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
BRENDA UELANDThe only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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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.
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… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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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.
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And it is why all the bright women of the world, who if more were expected of them, might do important work, but who instead have a chronic feeling of ineffectiveness and sloth.
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we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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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).
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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.
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There is that American pastime known as “kidding” – with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
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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.
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But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them.
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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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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