pixie_d 's review for:

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland

2.0

inspiring slow-paced

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I picked this up for the "Gray[Wolf press] in May" challenge but didn't get to it right away. It is very old-timey, classist, and reads like listening to a "blowhard" who loves to talk at you but keeps spinning their wheels with endless examples of the same thing instead of delivering the content as promised. (A good editor would point out she'd already made her point instead of letting her go on chapter after chapter repeating herself). However, she does quote some inspiring passages from Van Gogh and from William Blake, and for that I was glad not to have to dig through all the primary sources of their writings to gather some great quotes.