Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 - March 5, 1985) was a 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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“... the imagination needs moodling,—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“... 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 of it.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“‘If only I had a wife!’ I used to think, ‘who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.’”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“... we Northerners have become too much driven by the idea that in twenty years we will live, not now: because by that time our savings and the accrued interest will make it possible.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“A friend of mine spoke of books that are dedicated like this: ‘To my wife, by whose helpful criticism ...’ and so on. He said the dedication should really read: ‘To my wife. If it had not been for her continual criticism and persistent nagging doubt as to my ability, this book would have appeared in Harper’s instead of The Hardware Age.’”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)