Amazon.com Review: For most, the hardest part of writing is overcoming the mountain of self-denial that weighs upon the spirit, always threatening to extinguish those first small embers of ambition. Brenda Ueland, a writer and teacher, devotes most of her book--published back in 1938, before everyone and their goldfish got their MFA's in creative writing--to these matters of the writer's heart...read more

Product Description: The second in Kore Press' essay series was printed in an edition of 1000. Excerpt from "Tell Me More:" We should all know this: this listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good...read more

Discusses writing and the creative process, encourages freedom and truthfulness in written expression in order to avoid automatic, uninteresting compositions.

Discusses writing and the creative process by encouraging freedom and truthfulness in written expression in order to avoid automatic, uninteresting compositions (view table of contents)

A writer, teacher, and early feminist relates her own coming-of-age in Minneapolis and Greenwich Village in the early part of the twentieth century

A collection of articles and essays offers the author's views of moral, social, and political issues of American life, portraits of some of her contemporaries, and discussions of feminist and spiritual matters and animal rights

Discusses writing and the creative process by encouraging freedom and truthfulness in written expression in order to avoid automatic, uninteresting compositions.