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Brenda Ueland quotes: Strength to your sword arm!

Strength to your sword arm!

Brenda Ueland quotes: The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

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

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Be bold, free, and truthful.

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Brenda Ueland quotes: The great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say.

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

Brenda Ueland quotes: Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: All children have creative power.

All children have creative power.

Brenda Ueland quotes: Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Duty should be a byproduct.

Duty should be a byproduct.

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas.

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

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

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

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

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

Brenda Ueland quotes: By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: The imagination needs moodling,long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: Consistency is the horror of the world.

Consistency is the horror of the world.

Brenda Ueland quotes: Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

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

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

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

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

Brenda Ueland quotes: 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.

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.

Brenda Ueland quotes: Writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Brenda Ueland quotes: Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

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

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

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