Brenda Ueland (October 24, 1891 - March 5, 1985) was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing
"I learned...that inspiration does not comelike a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a littlechance to start flowing, prime it with a littlesolitude and idleness."
