Julia Cameron Quotes

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. It is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking.

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

For today, all you need is the grace to begin beginning.

God does not give us more than we can handle, " I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

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

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

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

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, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

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

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

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

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

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

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

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

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action―Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

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

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