Julia Cameron Quotes

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.

Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

Making art is an act of faith.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

Our internal artist is always our creative child.

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

To write is to right things. A path will emerge.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

It is the inner commitment to be true to ourselves and follow our dreams that triggers the support of the universe.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I am due at the page.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

We talk about self-expression but need to pause and remember that self-expression requires a self to express.