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This book so speaks to the contemporary writer that it is nearly impossible to believe that it was originally published in 1938. In If You Want to Write, Brenda Ueland sets forth not just a philosophy about how to write or how to create, but also about how to live. Beginning writers will certainly be encouraged by Ueland's words, but even the most experienced have much to glean from Ueland's simple wisdom. "Everybody," writes Ueland in the opening chapter, "is talented, original, and has something important to say." Finding that something important involves embracing creative idleness ("the imagination needs moodling--long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering"), freeing "what we really think, from what we think we ought to think," and "thumb[ing] your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters." One must think, she says, "of telling a story, not of writing it." And when revising one's writing, she advises, "do not try to think of better words, more gripping words.... It is not yet deeply enough imagined." Finally, "whenever you find yourself writing a single word or phrase or page dutifully and with boredom, then leave it out.... If what you write bores you, it will bore other people." And just because If You Want to Write is passionate, sincere, and even spiritual, do not think it is not also witty. One footnote bluntly declaims, "No doubt my terms would horrify a psychologist but I do not care at all." Elsewhere Ueland titles a chapter "Why Women Who Do Too Much Housework Should Neglect It for Their Writing." Amen, sister!
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"It's a perfect book for both beginning and advanced writing students. It's wonderfully inspirational and can be coupled with just about any teaching technique."—Erin Cressida Wilson, Duke University
"The finest book written on the art and spirit of writing."—Shann Ferch, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
"I have consistently used If You Want to Write for eight years now in English 241, and the students have loved it every semester."—Mel Livatino, Truman College (Chicago, IL)
"If You Want to Write does a superb job of reassuring student writers whose schooling has often robbed them of any confidence in their own voices. Nothing else I know does a better job of explaining to first-year college students the necessity of passion in the writer."—Shelby Grantham, Dartmouth College
"I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'"—Andrei Codrescu, poet, author, and National Public Radio commentator
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her."—Women's Review of Books
"The finest book written on the art and spirit of writing."—Shann Ferch, Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
"I have consistently used If You Want to Write for eight years now in English 241, and the students have loved it every semester."—Mel Livatino, Truman College (Chicago, IL)
"If You Want to Write does a superb job of reassuring student writers whose schooling has often robbed them of any confidence in their own voices. Nothing else I know does a better job of explaining to first-year college students the necessity of passion in the writer."—Shelby Grantham, Dartmouth College
"I was with [Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'"—Andrei Codrescu, poet, author, and National Public Radio commentator
"I only have to read a few sentences and I am infected with the desire to follow her."—Women's Review of Books
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This is the best book I've read on the process of writing, and on expressing one's creativity. I wish I had found it years ago! I especially appreciate the quotes she uses from artists and writers (namely Van Gogh and William Blake) to help explain the creative process and how important it is to express it every day and without fear of criticism. Wonderful.
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The more I read from Ueland, the more I became convinced that I had found a book that would be yellowed and dog-eared on my bedside table thirty years from now. Each observation that she makes feels so common-sensical, friendly and right at its core that it seems as though someone ought to have pointed it all out to you before. This is not the typical self-conscious guide to life or writing; it's a conversation and an excercise in encouragement.
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I found this book by accident while browsing through a now-defunct Los Angeles bookstore/cafe. It was the luckiest accident of my life. At that point I had been a professional writer for more than twenty years, but I rarely enjoyed my work, and I felt all of it was disposable in one way or another. At first, reading "If You Want to Write" gave me an incredible, if unfamiliar, feeling of joy and self-confidence. Afterwards, I began to surprise the hell out of myself in terms of what I was able to accomplish. This simply written book states some of the most profound truths about life and creativity I have ever read. Whenever I get stuck on a project I go back and re-read it, and its warmth, generosity, and brilliance always inspire me to go on. It should almost be titled "If You Want to Live", because far more than being a how-to book on writing, it makes an eloquent argument that we all can live creative lives as long as we're true to ourselves.
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Gutes Buch, wiederholt sich allerdings zu oft
"If you want to write" ist ein tolles Buch für alle, die auf der Suche nach Inspiration sind. Brenda Ueland versteht es, den Leser zu inspirieren und zu motivieren, das eigene... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. August 2009 von T. Schmidhuber
The importance of realizing the Emperor has no clothes....
A dear friend gave me this book (scribbling her own words of encouragement on the first page) and it became one of the best gifts I have ever received. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Juli 2000 von JH
Inspiring truth
I first read this book 2 years ago but consult it frequently. Brenda Ueland speaks the truth and helps all of us searchers to look within ourselves deeper and bring out our true... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. April 2000 von Michael Dicarlo
"Everybody is talented, original and has something to say."
This book is a treasure and a necessity for the creative person--or anyone who believes that the human spirit has no limits. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Februar 2000 von Marilyn Dalrymple
No Middle Ground Here
Those who resist this astounding little book might become perfectly adequate lawyers or professors of dry literature someday, but will probably need to reconsider this & that... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 28. Januar 2000 von Carra R Lane
READY TO LEAVE PERFECTION BEHIND - SING FROM THE HEART
Wow. This book was one of the best gifts I've ever received. It is incredible. I understand those, looking for something technical, would find it 'boring'. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Januar 2000 von M. C. Meinert
Quite boring
I actually found "If You Want to Write" to be quite boring. I felt that the book was more about developing self esteem and learning that you are good enough to write. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Dezember 1999 von Caspian
Tough going, but does make a good point.
The book seems quite archaic in viewpoint now, and could be updated for modern readers. Still Ueland makes a great point, that you need to wrtie with soul and passion from your... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
I guess I am missing the inspiration
It appears I have missed the boat on this book. I struggled with to find all the wisdom everyone was clamoring about. After a week I was still only on page 28. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. November 1999 veröffentlicht
A populist philosophy of writing.
If You Want to Write is about the author's philosophy of writing in particular and life in general. This vague summary may make it sound difficult or boring, but in fact it is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. August 1999 von Joshua Beidler
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