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  • If You Want to Write

  • A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit
  • Written by: Brenda Ueland
  • Narrated by: Pat Carroll
  • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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If You Want to Write

Written by: Brenda Ueland
Narrated by: Pat Carroll
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In her 93 remarkable years, veteran freelance writer, memoirist, and writing teacher Brenda Ueland published some six million words. She once said there were two simple rules that she followed absolutely: to tell the truth, and not to do anything she didn't want to do. Such integrity both distinguishes and defines If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic that first appeared in the late 1930s and has inspired thousands to find their own creative center. As Carl Sandburg once remarked, Ueland's primer is "the best book ever written on how to write".
©1938, 1987 Brenda Ueland and the Estate of Brenda Ueland (P)1991, 1998 HighBridge Company

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