Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.Brenda Ueland
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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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
So you see, imagination needs moodlinglong, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Brenda Ueland
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
All children have creative power.
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