dandiread: If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

Go buy this book. Brenad Ueland uses a direct approach to writing make the argument everyone can write. I believe her. Its time we silence the critics and do what we love!

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his true self and not from the self he thinks he should be. ”

“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.”

"Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent."