The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:" Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend, --and you want to write, --well, then you must imagine one. . Brenda Ueland
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is:"Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." The idea here is that writers need to find people who like them enough to be honest with them about their writing.

They need the support of people who don’t want to criticize them or make them feel bad about themselves. They also need to feel loved by their writing friends.

Source: If You Want To Write: A Book About Art, Independence And Spirit

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