Quotes by Brenda Ueland

• Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
• The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
• It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
• Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
• 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.
• All children have creative power.
• 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.
• This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.