“ Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. Brenda Ueland
“ I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you ha… Brenda Ueland
“ At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it. Brenda Ueland
“ By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). Brenda Ueland
“ When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his y… Brenda Ueland
“ But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security… Brenda Ueland
“ Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people. Brenda Ueland
“ Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters. Brenda Ueland
“ Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no ot… Brenda Ueland
“ ...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others? Brenda Ueland
“ ...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Brenda Ueland
