If You Want to Write : A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit - Softcover

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Carl Sandburg called this book about art, independence, and spirit, "the best book ever written about how to write." Over 50 years since its publication, If You Want to Write continues to motivate aspiring writers.

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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. Brenda Ueland, a writer and teacher, devotes most of her book--published back in 1938, before everyone and their goldfish got their MFA's in creative writing--to these matters of the writer's heart. Still, the real gift of the book is Ueland herself: She liked to write, she didn't care what anyone thought, and she had a great sense of humor. You're simply happy to hang out with her.
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In her 93 remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book "The best book ever written about how to write". Yet Ueland reminds us that "Whenever I say 'writing' in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or to make". Ueland's writing and her teaching are made compelling by her feisty spirit of independence and joy.

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  • PublisherGraywolf Press
  • Publication date1987
  • ISBN 10 0915308940
  • ISBN 13 9780915308941
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages179
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