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If You Want To Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

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Author:: Brenda Ueland (author)
Language:: English
Original language:: English
Publisher:: Graywolf Press
Category:: Writing
Publication year:: 1987
Original publication year:: 1938
ISBN:: 0-915308-94-0
Pages:: 179
Has read?: Yes
Debut?: Yes
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Preface to Second Edition

I. Everybody is talented, original and has something important to say
II. "Imagination is the Divine Body in every Man" — William Blake
III. Why a Renaissance nobleman wrote sonnets
IV. The Imagination works slowly and quietly
V. "Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires" — William Blake
VI. "Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive" — de Musset
VII. Be careless, reckless! Be a lion, be a pirate, when you write
VIII. Why you are not to be discouraged, annihilated, by rejection slips
IX. People confuse the human and the Divine ego
X. Why Women who do too much housework should neglect it for their writing
XI. Microscopic truthfulness
XII. Art is infection
XIII. The third dimension
XIV. Keep a slovenly, headlong, impulsive, honest diary
XV. You do not know what is in you — an inexhaustible fountain of ideas
XVI. On using the Imagination
XVII. "The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction" — William Blake
XVIII. "He whose face gives no light shall never become a star" — William Blake

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