Quotes by : Brenda Ueland

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without....

Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others,....

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are....

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth....

When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within....

In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in....

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence....

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen.....

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very....