If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
by:
Brenda Ueland (author)
In her 93 remarkable years, veteran freelance writer, memoirist, and writing teacher Brenda Ueland published some six million words. She once said there were two simple rules that she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not do anything she didn't want to do. Such integrity both...
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In her 93 remarkable years, veteran freelance writer, memoirist, and writing teacher Brenda Ueland published some six million words. She once said there were two simple rules that she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not do anything she didn't want to do. Such integrity both distinguishes and defines If You Want to Write, her bestselling classic that first appeared in the late 1930s and has inspired thousands to find their own creative center. As Carl Sandburg once remarked, Ueland's primer is "the best book ever written on how to write."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781555972608 (1555972608)
ASIN: 1555972608
Publish date: 1997-03-01
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Pages no: 179
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Art,
Self Help,
Education,
Philosophy
I read this beautiful book every few years. It is inclusive, encouraging, and joyful. "This creative power and imagination is in everyone, and so is the need to express it, i.e., to share it with others. But what happens to it? It is very tender and sensitive, and it is usually drummed out of people...
The best book on creativity I've ever read. Written in 1937, still completely fresh and inspiring.
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