Brenda Ueland

(65 votes)   It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Brenda Ueland
1891-1986, American Writer

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(17 votes)   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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(15 votes)   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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(15 votes)   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 and quietly putting one bead on after another.

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(15 votes)   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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(15 votes)   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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(14 votes)   All children have creative power.

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(13 votes)   This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

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(11 votes)   Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

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