Brenda Ueland

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.