~ Brenda Ueland Quotes ~

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Brenda Ueland Quotes


A journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing.
Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 - March 5, 1985) was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.

Here are some famous quotes by Brenda Ueland.

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

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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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When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

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Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

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Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed off.

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In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.