Dorothea Brande quotes

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. (Dorothea Brande)

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Dorothea Brande

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

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The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

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Old habits are strong and jealous.

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In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.

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Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

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Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world. (Dorothea Brande)

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

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If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.

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The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

Dorothea Brande

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.

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Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

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A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Dorothea Brande

Every book, ever editor, every teacher will tell you that the great key to success in authorship is originality....It is well to understand as early as possible in one's writing life that there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us. There is a sense in which everyone is unique. No one else was born of your parents, at just that time of just that country's history: no one underwent just your experiences, reached just your conclusions, or faces the world with the exact set of ideas that you must have. If you can come to such friendly terms with yourself that you are able and willing to say precisely what you think of any given situation or character, if you can tell a story as it can appear only to you of all the people on earth, you will inevitably have a piece of work which is original. (Dorothea Brande)

Dorothea Brande

Occupation: American Writer
Born: 1893
Died: 1948
Quotes count: 21
Wikipedia: Dorothea Brande

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