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Strength to your sword arm!

The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

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

Be bold, free, and truthful.

The great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

All children have creative power.

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

Duty should be a byproduct.

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

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

You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

We like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

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.

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

The imagination needs moodling,
long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful.

The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

Consistency is the horror of the world.

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

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

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.

Writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.