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.
BRENDA UELANDBe bold, free, and truthful.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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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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And least of all – which is so important, too – to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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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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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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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.
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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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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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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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I 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.
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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.
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