Julia Cameron Quotes

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much o...

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enoug...

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the ...

Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools...

Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it ...

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visio...

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage...

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the cran...

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made...

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i...

Basic Principles:1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.2....

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else...

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch...

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong se...

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art...

We will experience the life we have the faith to experience.

There is no fact, no detail of our life too sordid for God's intervention. God has seen murder. God ...

God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me...

The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small...

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lo...

When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns...

Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in...

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, ...

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a fo...

Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability....

Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform w...

The "if I had time" lie is a convenient way to ignore the fact that novels require being written and...

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter...

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly ...

If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming w...

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

When we make time to write, we can do it anytime, anywhere.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes o...

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yo...

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your d...

Serious art is born from serious play.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the...

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whi...

Those who speak in spiritual terms routinely refer to God as creator but seldom see "creator" as the...

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

The reward for attention is always healing.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artisti...

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, ...

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord...

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Ann...

When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a...

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become crea...

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humank...

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Somet...

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How ...