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
running fitness nuts
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
happy imagination needs
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
trying way best-way
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
communication constantly creative listening magnetic people strange tired
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
chance energetic nor prime quietly regularly slowly solitude start though
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 imagination creative
No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.
artist want materialistic
... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
writing ideas long
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.
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.
thinking two sometimes
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
talking listening roles
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
listening doe beloved
And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good
believe listening alive
The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.