Brenda Ueland

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two. ”

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty. ”

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. ”

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ”

All children have creative power. ”