a book about art, independence and spirit Ueland, Brenda 1891- creator text nyu St. Paul Graywolf Press 2007 monographic eng

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xvi, 163 pages ; 21 cm. For most, the hardest part of writing is overcoming the mountain of self-denial that weighs upon the spirit, always threatening to extinguish those first small embers of ambition. Brenda Ueland, a writer and teacher, devotes most of her book--published back in 1938, before everyone and their goldfish got their MFA's in creative writing--to these matters of the writer's heart. Still, the real gift of the book is Ueland herself: She liked to write, she didn't care what anyone thought, and she had a great sense of humor. You're simply happy to hang out with her. Brenda Ueland's Wings shop / Andrei Codescu-- Preface, 1983 / Brenda Ueland-- Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say-- "Imagination is the divine body in every man"-- William Blake-- Why a Renaissance nobleman wrote sonnets-- The imagination works slowly and quietly-- "Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires"- William Blake-- "Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive"- Alfred de Musset Be careless, reckless! Be a lion, be a pirate, when you write-- Why you are not to be discouraged, annihilated, by rejection slips-- People confuse the human and the divine ego-- Why women who do too much house-work should neglect it for their writing-- Microscopic truthfulness-- Art is infection-- The third dimension-- Keep a slovenly, headlong, impulsive, honest diary-- You do not know what is in you-- an inexhaustible fountain of ideas-- On using the imagination-- "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction"- William Blake-- "He whose face gives no light shall never become a star"-- William Blake. by Brenda Ueland. Authorship Paternidad literaria Creative writing Escritura creativa Creación literaria, artística, etc PN 147 U22i 2007 808/.02 9781555974718 1555974716 87080010 DLC 070224 20240214140007.0 3843188 spa