If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit Friday, July 31 2009.

• 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 do anything she didn't want to do. Such integrity both distinguishes and defines If You Want to Write , her bestselling 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."

Shelfari edited the contributors of If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a contributor: Brenda Ueland: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit Friday, July 17 2009.

• I HAVE BEEN WRITING a long time and have learned some things, not only from my own long hard work, but from a writing class I had for three years.