If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated, perhaps; and forever talked to by god and his messengers.

—Brenda Ueland (If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit)

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Ruth. this is bizarre. Out of my boxes of stuff that was in storage for 7 years I found this book. A couple of days ago. It's sitting next to my computer, waiting to be actually read…..

Lovely quote.

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

It seems to happen more and more, the universe reminding us that we're all connected. A while back I posted a Carl Jung quote on my blog as part of a response to a comment by Meenakshi, and she commented back to say she'd just read that same quote somewhere else two days earlier.

Bizarre? Nah…

:)

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

I love this book. I think I first read it when I was barely a teenager; Farland had a copy somewhere in the house that was likely a gift from my grandfather. I haven't seen it in ages, though. Perhaps it's time for a reread. Thank you, Ruth. :)

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

More quotes from Brenda Ueland (contributed by Gabriele here):

“Now to have things alive and interesting it must be personal, it must come from the “I”: what I know and feel. For that is the only great and interesting thing. That is the only truth you know, that nobody else does.”

“... all people have in them the power to write greatly and well, when they express freely and carelessly what is true to THEM.” 

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Ruth, this is a-m-a-z-in-g! I had no idea this thread even existed! Probably brushed over it when it was originally posted by you… oh, it was my vacation time!

But I probably wouldn't have responded to the quotes back then as I do today anyway… another thing in the universe that is well taken care of if we keep our intuitive antennas open. Always the perfect bit of information at the right time!

:)

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

and there's this thread here: Required Reading - Brenda Ueland.

Here's another gem:

“And do not try to be consistent, for what is true to you today may not be true at all tomorrow, because you see a better truth.”

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Sandra, that same thread, strangely, I did discover and after reading your post I went and ordered the book. It is hard to believe that she wrote it in 1938. She is such a freefaller and deep diver, it's like she's one of us. Well, then of course, she is!

:)

Re: If you want to write... (Brenda Ueland)

Oh Sandra, that feels like one of the truest truths I've ever heard. I just love when well-known authors echo my thoughts (re what's true today may not be true tomorrow). I try to be consistent only in speaking what's true for me at the time of speaking (or writing).