Highlights from: 'If You Want to Write"

Reading: If You Want to Write – A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit. By Brenda Ueland, 1987 edition.

I came across the book in my Writers' Group that I attend on Monday afternoons. Brenda Ueland was born in 1891 and died in 1985. She was very active even at the time of her passing. She was a writer, editor, and teacher of writing.
Let me share some highlights from chapter 1 of her book.
She states that: “Everybody is talented, original, and has something to say.” In stating that she points out that 1. Everybody is talented since everyone has something to express in whatever form they can express it; 2. Everybody is original in that whatever you do from yourself is originally yours.
We need to trust our creativity to free up our creativity.
A great musician once said, 'That one should never play a single note without hearing it, without never feeling that it is true, thinking that about it is beautiful.'
We should be creative from what comes from withing us by what we know and love. You can then be sure that it is coming from your heart.
Life is meant to be enjoyed and enjoy it.