About Brenda Ueland: Brenda Ueland is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative, sympathetic people who love us and have the magnanimity to encourage us, to believe ...
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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 ...
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
All children have creative power.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
