Brenda Ueland Quotes

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Crying is a kind of communication, and communication is awesome.

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

I blog because I have something to say.

I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

Writing is the best way to get your mind clear. It's also a great way to explain your past or what you hope for the future.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there

Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.