{"product_id":"if-you-want-to-write-a-book-about-art-independence-and-spirit-hardcover-1","title":"If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrenda Ueland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf You Want to Write\u003c\/em\u003e is Brenda Ueland's classic book on creativity, artistic independence, truthful expression, and the inward freedom required to make art.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in 1938, it is framed as a book for writers, but its deeper subject is the creative life itself: attention, confidence, imagination, discipline without deadening rules, and the courage to tell the truth in one's own voice. Ueland writes against timidity, imitation, self-censorship, and the false authority of people who make art feel smaller than it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a strong Sublime title because it is not simply a manual of craft. It belongs to the tradition of self-culture and creative-spiritual independence: a book about writing as a practice of honesty, perception, vitality, and inner authority. Ueland's teaching is direct, generous, and stubbornly liberating. She treats creativity as something living in ordinary people, not as a professional credential bestowed by institutions. The result is one of the enduring twentieth-century books on writing, art, and the independent spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of classic writing guides, creativity, artistic self-development, women's literary nonfiction, and books on the creative life, \u003cem\u003eIf You Want to Write\u003c\/em\u003e remains unusually fresh: practical without being mechanical, spiritual without being vague, and insistent that real art begins in truthfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 122\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47430666584242,"sku":"9781515432524","price":34.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/s9lZzr2TQu9781515432524.webp?v=1783257790","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/if-you-want-to-write-a-book-about-art-independence-and-spirit-hardcover-1","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}