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

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

Brenda Ueland
Children, Writing, Creativity
Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

Brenda Ueland
Mother, Children, Husband

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Brenda Ueland
Children, Powerful, Writing

All children have creative power.

Brenda Ueland
Children, Power, Creative

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

Brenda Ueland
Mother, Children, Doors
Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Brenda Ueland
Happy, Marriage, Children
Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

Brenda Ueland
Children, Light, Vision
Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”

I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.

Brenda Ueland
Children, Memories, Flower
Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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