Quotations From BRENDA UELAND

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• 1.

  Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 18 (1938).
  
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• 2.

  ... no writing is a waste of time,—no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 2 (1938).
  
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• 3.

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

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 1 (1938).
• 4.

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

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 13 (1938).
• 5.

  ... we have come to think of all idleness as hoggish, not as creative and radiant.

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 6 (1938).
• 6.

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

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 1 (1938).
  
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• 7.

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

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 18 (1938).
• 8.

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

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 6 (1938).
  
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• 9.

  ... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 4 (1938).
• 10.

  ...Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

  Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. author and writing teacher. If You Want to Write, 2nd. ed., ch. 12 (1938).
  
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