Brenda Ueland Quotes

Inspiration comes very slowly and quietly.
— Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
— Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write

So you see, imagination needs moodling—long inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
— Brenda Ueland

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten—happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
— Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write

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I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten — happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
— Brenda Ueland If You Want to Write

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Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

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When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.  Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.  You know how if a person laughs at your jokes you become funnier and funnier, and if he does not, every tiny little joke in you weazens up and dies. Well, that is the principle of it.

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