Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

—Brenda Ueland

About Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 – March 5, 1985) was an American journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit.

More quotations from Brenda Ueland

So you see, imagination needs moodling—long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

—Brenda Ueland

More quotations tagged with “God”

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?

—Anna Quindlen

O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax!

—Anna Quindlen

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.

—Albert Einstein

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

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