Delphine de Girardin
French writer
Brenda Ueland
American journalist and writer
Brenda Uelandwas an American 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.
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About the Brenda Ueland
Brenda Uelandwas an American 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.
8 Quotes by Brenda Ueland
- 1.
Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 2.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 3.
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 4.
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 5.
All children have creative power.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 6.
Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer
- 8.
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
Brenda UelandAmerican journalist and writer