If You Want to Write

Brenda Ueland wrote six million words during her 93 years. She said she had two rules: to tell the truth in everything she wrote and never to do anything she didn't want to do. Her integrity shines throughout If You Want to Write, her best-selling classic on the process of writing that has already inspired thousands to find their own creative center. Carl Sandburg called this book The best book ever written about how to write. Yet Ueland reminds us that "whenever I say writing in this book, I also mean anything that you love and want to do or to make. "