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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit QUOTES

41 " They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer— some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky— are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one’s life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

42 " But here is an important thing: you must practice not perfunctorily, but with all your intelligence and love, "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

43 " you will never know what your husband looks like unless you try to draw him, and you will never understand him unless you try to write his story. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

44 " Your motto: Be Bold, be Free, be Truthful "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

45 " I hate it not so much on my own account, for I have learned at last not to let it balk me. But I hate it because of the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

46 " Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

47 " I want to assure you with all earnestness that no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

48 " ...everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

49 " With every sentence you write, you have learned something. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

50 " I have often thought how billions of dollars are spent on advertising in this country. Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn’t meant. It was all written, not because the writer felt something and then said it (if you feel a thing the more simply you say it the better, the more effective), but because he tried to impress and inveigle people, convince them something is very fine about which he himself does not really care a button. "

― Brenda Ueland , If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit