If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland

The best book ever written about how to write.-Carl Sandburg Brenda Ueland has inspired thousands to take pen to paper through her classic book, If You Want to Write. She has moved countless to become more artistic, optimistic, and charged with possibility. Ueland's charismatic personality and encouragement that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say, have made her a favorite among fans ranging from creative writing students to computer programmers. For most, the hardest part of writing is overcoming the mountain of self-denial that weighs upon the spirit, always threatening to extinguish those first small embers of ambition. Ueland devotes most of If You Want to Write to matters of the writer's heart. An inspirational tract aimed at all those who would write but are prevented from so doing by shyness, fear or humility . . . I was with Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'-Andrei Codrescu, NPR

The best book ever written about how to write.-Carl Sandburg Brenda Ueland has inspired thousands to take pen to paper through her classic book, If You Want to Write. She has moved countless to become more artistic, optimistic, and charged with possibility. Ueland's charismatic personality and encouragement that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say, have made her a favorite among fans ranging from creative writing students to computer programmers. For most, the hardest part of writing is overcoming the mountain of self-denial that weighs upon the spirit, always threatening to extinguish those first small embers of ambition. Ueland devotes most of If You Want to Write to matters of the writer's heart. An inspirational tract aimed at all those who would write but are prevented from so doing by shyness, fear or humility . . . I was with Ueland] right up to the end and wanted to shout, 'Amen.'-Andrei Codrescu, NPR

Brenda Ueland was born in Minneapolis in 1891 and grew up there. For many years of her adult life she lived in New York, working mostly as a freelance writer and disliking her work. Returning to Minneapolis, she began to teach writing in various community settings in the Twin Cities. She said of herself that she was born on Lake Calhoun in a happier time before automobiles. Brenda Ueland was the author of three books, If You Want to Write, ME, and Strength to Your Sword Arm, many articles and short stories, and was a long-time teacher of writing. She was knighted by the King of Norway and set an international swimming record (for over-80-year-olds). She lived by two rules: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. She died in 1985 at the age of 93.

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ISBN 13	9789650060282
ISBN 10	9650060286
Titre	If You Want to Write
Auteur	Brenda Ueland
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	www.bnpublishing.com
Année de publication	2008-07-25
Nombre de pages	164
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