Quotes by : Brenda Ueland

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and....

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist....

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

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

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

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his....

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

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

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He....

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.