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.
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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as I see where I can make an annual cut of 3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas.Brenda Ueland
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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So you see, imagination needs moodlinglong, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.
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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.
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