All Brenda Ueland Quotes
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Brenda Ueland
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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda Ueland
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This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Brenda Ueland
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Brenda Ueland
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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
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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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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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