Brenda Ueland Quotes - Page 2

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• Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

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  Wonder, Reason, Said

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• The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

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  Life Changing, Moving, Self

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Be bold, free, and truthful.

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  Truth, Freedom, Truthful

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.

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  Believe, Writing, Self

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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  Inspiration, Solitude, Littles

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• The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

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  Trying, Way, Best Way

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• 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. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

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  Nice, Love You, Mean

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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.

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  Tired, Listening To Others, People

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

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  Running, Men, Hair

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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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. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

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  Peace, Artist, People

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• No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

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  Writing, Imagination, Creative

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Writing, Thinking, Drawing

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

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  Inspirational, Flames, Choices

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again I say - the only unfortunate people are the glib ones, immediately satisfied with their work. To them, the ocean is only knee-deep.

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  Ocean, Writing, Mean

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• Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

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  Inspirational, Acceptance, Unique

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Writing, Self, Two

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• ... the spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

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  Thinking, Spirit, Fountain

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

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  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.

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  Believe, Writing, People

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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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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  Writing, People, Feelings

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

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  Husband, Creative, Murderer

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

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  Communication, Writing, Garden

  Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

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• Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

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  Art, Writing, Creativity

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

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  Thinking, People, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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