132 Quotes by Brenda Ueland

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

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

...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?

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.

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do.

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

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