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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Famous quotes by brenda ueland:
“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 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)
“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany’s made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)