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Strength to your sword arm! — Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

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

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

Be bold, free, and truthful. — Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All children have creative power. — Brenda Ueland

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

Duty should be a byproduct. — Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consistency is the horror of the world. — Brenda Ueland

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

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

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

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

Writing is not a performance but a generosity. — Brenda Ueland

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

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