Quotes by : Brenda Ueland

(about William Blake)As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew....

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

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

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

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

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.

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....

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.

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