“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a ...” — Brenda Ueland Quote

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”

“...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.”

“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”

“Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.”

“Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.”

“The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.”

“Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.”

“The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.”

“As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.”

“Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.”

“Managing forests, rivers, grasslands, and coral reefs in sustainable ways makes them more resilient and increases their ability to absorb greenhouse gases, which is good for business.”

“Black pepper is necessary to absorb the key antioxidants in most spices and foods, including turmeric, so get a pepper grinder and fill it with Tellicherry peppercorns.”