38 Quotes by Dorothea Brande

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail.

My own experience has been that there is no field where one who is in earnest about learning to do good work can make such enormous strides in so short a time.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other...