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
inspiration creativity creating
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
writing generosity performances
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
reading talking listening
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day.
letting-go mistake conceited
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
life want serious
We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
flames choices vision
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
creativity streams
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
writing people feelings
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
nice love-you mean
Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.
people advice listening
Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.
thinking listening knows
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.
inspirational incomparable
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
children creative creative-power
All children have creative power.
inspiration solitude littles
Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.