Brenda Ueland: Writing

Brenda Ueland was Journalist and writer. Explore interesting quotes on writing.
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“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.”

Brenda Ueland

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

Feeling , Imagination , Intelligence , Learning

“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.”

Brenda Ueland
Feeling , Mountain , Learning , Happiness

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

Brenda Ueland

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

People , Truth , Feeling

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

Brenda Ueland

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