If You Want to Write
Thoughts About Art, Independence, and Spirit

Brenda Ueland is like the granny of creativity analeptics that flourish on every “personal growth” shelf. All the successful how-to-write guides, from Cameron to Goldberg and Lamott, are indebted to Ueland. Indeed, when she published her book in the 1930s, putting literary creativity within everyone......more

This book is amazing. Brenda Ueland inspired students when she was alive and continues to do so. I bought this book at discounted price from here: [URL not allowed]-You-Want-Wr.........more

If you want to Write, or do ANYthing you are passionate about...draw, paint, teach, imagine, create...this book inspires. I even had to blog it (www.burnah.blogspot.com) To really remember it, I want to put it down here: My favorite word in the book: "Waggish" Meaning fanciful, whimsy, silly. Some fav......more

I had to read the book Carl Sandburg said was the best book ever on writing. The poem that came: If You Want To Write* For Brenda Ueland (1891-1985) I found you in a box, broken now, mildewed, packed with the crème, books read in college barely recollected, dog eared pages, notes in tea-stained margins, a ba......more

I never had any aspirations of becoming a writer. Writing, to me, was not enjoyable. I did not feel freed, or accomplished, and as though I had created a piece of art when I got done writing a paper. Papers were written for the sole purpose of impressing the teacher and getting a good grade. Brenda......more