Quote

Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.

Dorothea Brande

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dorothea Brande
Age: 55 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 12
Died: 1948
Died: December 17
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Dorothea Brande Collins
Running
Artistic
Shades
Feelings
Criticism
Components
Stories
Thousand
Observe
Luring
Find
Personal
Shade
Wince
Make
Trouble
Rejection
Quiver
Feeling
Insult
Insults
Story
Cover
Weave
Words
Tales
Component

More quotes by Dorothea Brande

Image
So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
Dorothea Brande
Image
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm.
Dorothea Brande
Image
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
Dorothea Brande
Image
it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
Dorothea Brande
Image
The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
Dorothea Brande
Image
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Dorothea Brande
Image
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
Dorothea Brande
Image
All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.
Dorothea Brande
Image
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
Image
A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Dorothea Brande
Image
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
Dorothea Brande
Image
If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.
Dorothea Brande