I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful. - Brenda Ueland
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
- Brenda Ueland
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indi… - Brenda Ueland
Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indi…
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 go… - Brenda Ueland
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 go…
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express. - Brenda Ueland
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present. - Brenda Ueland
Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed… - Brenda Ueland
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed…
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that. - Brenda Ueland
the death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritua… - Brenda Ueland
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritua…
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. - Brenda Ueland
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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