If You Want to Write
1st Edition
Published on 10. September 2024
172 pages
978-93-89157-80-2 (ISBN)
Description
Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. In If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit she shares her philosophies on writing and life in general. Ueland firmly believed that anyone can write, that everyone is talented, original, and has something important to say. In this book she explains how find that spark that will make you a great writer. Carl Sandburg called this book the best book ever written about how to write. Join the millions of others who've found inspiration and unlocked their own talent.
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Content
- Intro
- Chapter 1
- Everybody is Talented, Original and Has Something Important to Say
- Chapter 2
- Imagination is the Divine Body in Every Man
- Chapter 3
- Why a Renaissance Nobleman Wrote Sonnets
- Chapter 4
- The Imagination Works Slowly and Quietly
- Chapter 5
- Sooner Strangle an Infant in Its Cradle than Nurse Unacted Desires
- Chapter 6
- Know that There Is Often Hidden In Us a Dormant Poet Always Young and Alive
- Chapter 7
- Be Careless, Reckless! Be a Lion! Be a Pirate! When You Write
- Chapter 8
- Why you are not to be Discouraged? Annihilated by Rejection Slips
- Chapter 9
- People Confuse the Human and the Divine Ego
- Chapter 10
- Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing
- Chapter 11
- Microscopic Truthfulness
- Chapter 12
- Art Is Infection
- Chapter 13
- The Third Dimension
- Chapter 14
- Keep a Slovenly, Headlong, Impulsive, Honest Diary
- Chapter 15
- You Do Not Know What Is in You-an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas
- Chapter 16
- On Using the Imagination
- Chapter 17
- The Tigers of Wrath Are Wiser Than the Horses of Instruction
- Chapter 18
- He Whose Face Gives No Light Shall Never Become a Star
