Brenda Ueland was a journalist, editor, freelance writer, and teacher of writing. She is best known for her book If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit. Wikipedia
Creative listeners want you to be recklessly yourself. They are delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good.
Listening is a magnetic thing. The friends that really listen to us are the ones we move toward.
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.