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

Brenda Ueland

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.”
“Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.”
“If you're on a beach and a tsunami hits, you'll drown whether you're a small child or an Olympic swimmer. Some things will go bad no matter how good you are.”
“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”
“Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.”
“Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.”
“pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
“And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to know is that we are loved. And if Jesus means anything, he means that you are loved. I hope you know that. And I hope you stop worrying about all the stuff you don't know, because I don't think it amounts to a hill of beans.”

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