Brenda Ueland Quotes

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.

I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when I'm writing. Or I can be the opposite of all those things, when I'm not writing.

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.

I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.

People imagine that there are rituals, like lighting candles or sacrificing chickens. They really just want to know what the magic formula is for writing. I inevitably disappoint them by saying you just put your butt in the chair, and you write 500 words a day, and then you get up and repeat it the next morning.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

I really want to feel that I'm in a very balanced and good place in my life. And I do feel that. But I think it's always important to learn and draw little bits of inspiration from wherever we can.

Every single day, I write something new and record it.

I write every night.

The way you get better is putting words on the page and getting them behind you.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.