“You must become aware of the richness in you and come to believe in it and know it is there, so that you can write opulently and with self-trust. If you once become aware of it and have faith in it, you will be all right.” IfsKnowsWritingBelieveSelfHave FaithRichnessSelf Trust Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything.... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax.” ThinkingMenBelieveWellsChildrenFeelingsMightPainFaithAttitudeTakenDoubtRationalEducatedArticlesSkepticismPersistentSkepticalBackyardsAnything In LifeEducated Man Author:Brenda Ueland
“You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.” WantWritingTryingBelieveStoriesUseHonestySixTragedyShort StoryVersesBlankSmarterVulgarSymbolicGusto Author:Brenda Ueland
“The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.” PeopleWayWritingBelieveWellsTouchedPretentiousnessSlough Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word” KnowsBelieveMadeSaidSeemsRememberFictionStrangeGeniusHeroTruth IsOrdinaryImprovementUnexpectedEtcVillainSplendidGlamorousCrookedHeroinesPlausibleBlake Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.” WayBelievePersonsAliveSeeingPoetListening Author:Brenda Ueland
