Brenda Ueland
Brenda Ueland
Brenda Uelandwas a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 October 1891
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people tragedy
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
teacher attitude love-you
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.
happy marriage children
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.
work thinking knows
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
believe writing people
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.
artist want materialistic
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
creative live-in-the-present creative-power
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
writing talking people
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.
writing blessing thinking
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.
believe writing self
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.
people effort lilies
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.
truth truthful
Be bold, free, and truthful.
children light vision
We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.
time inspiration doe
Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.