Brenda Ueland Short Quotes

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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

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The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

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My motto for child raising: 'Always be careful never to cross a child.'

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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

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We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

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

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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

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So you see, imagination needs coddling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

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We like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

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The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.

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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

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

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Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

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I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

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Children are so afraid of us because they know we may try to keep them from making their biggest and most important mistakes.

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If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

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You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

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The spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.

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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.

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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.

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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 spiritually.

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