Brenda Ueland

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Brenda Ueland

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.


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


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


Why should we all use our creative powers...? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.


I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten—happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

 


 

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