Brenda Ueland Quotes

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

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.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

All children have creative power.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.