Brenda Ueland Quotes

Brenda Ueland was 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. Wikipedia

✵ 24. October 1891 – 5. March 1985

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Famous Brenda Ueland Quotes

“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”

“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.”

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.”

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.”

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“… at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.”

“… writing is not a performance but a generosity.”

Source: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

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