Brenda Ueland is my Hero

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

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

Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.