num_pages: 180
description: But we must try to find our True Conscience, our True Self, the very Center, for this is the only first-rate choice-making center. Here lies all originality, talent, honor, truthfulness, courage and cheerfulness. Here lies the ability to choose the good and the grand, the true and the beautiful.In her ninety-three remarkable years, Brenda Ueland published six million words. She said she had two rules she followed 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 bestselling classic on the process of writing that has already inspiredthousands 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 make."
language: English
title: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
titlecomplete: If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
genres: Crafts, How To, Writing, Self Help, Philosophy, Reference, Nonfiction, Art, Business, Memoir
ratings_count: 8334
publisher: Graywolf Press