One of my all time favorite books on writing is Brenda Ueland’s “If You Want to Write. A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit”. It is an uplifting, witty, helpful and supportive book for writers. Written in 1938, it is still relevant today.
Below is what Brenda says about creating one another through listening, attention and words. Enjoy!
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life…
When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other…
and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom…
Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way.” –Brenda Ueland
