Quotes by Brenda Ueland

When we are listened to it creates us makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

“Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. ”

“...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

“...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?”