Brenda Ueland

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#imagination

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#orginality #truth #writing #art

If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#beauty

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

#freedom #friends #writing #art

...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

#writing #art

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. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#inspirational

...writing is not a performance but a generosity. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#art

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#writing #art

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#laughter #writing #art

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

#expectations #perseverance #writing #art