{"author":"Brenda Ueland","author_id":"Brenda+Ueland","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good  true  and serious.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["fear"],"id":5089,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["critics","freedom","friends","writing"],"id":45550,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"...Writing is not a performance but a generosity.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["writing"],"id":48569,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"Remember William Blake who said: 'Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.'The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["autheticity","genius","reality","william-blake","writing"],"id":55528,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["important","original","say "],"id":61497,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. 'I will not Reason and Compare,' said Blake; 'my business is to Create.' Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. ","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["comparison","creativity","writing"],"id":62772,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"Orthodox criticism ... Is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented  having the most imagination and sympathy  these are the first ones to get killed off.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["helping","people"],"id":90594,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["inspiration","life"],"id":95971,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["happiness"],"id":103748,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"},{"text":"...At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.","author":"Brenda Ueland","tags":["truth","writing"],"id":104210,"author_id":"Brenda+Ueland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}