Brenda Ueland Quotes about Creativity

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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

Inspiration, Creativity, Creating

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

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

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

Happiness, Creativity, Long

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Brenda Ueland

Creativity, Long, Six

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

Brenda Ueland

Art, Writing, Creativity

Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.13, Simon and Schuster