"The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering. "
— Brenda Ueland

"Everyone is talented, original and has something important to say."
— Brenda Ueland

"We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom."
— Brenda Ueland (If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit)