Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Pages clarify our yearnings. They keep an eye on our goals. They may provoke us, coax us, comfort us, even cajole us,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“When people ask, “Why do we write morning pages?” I joke, “To get to the other side.” They think I am kidding,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Doing it all the time, whether or not we are in the mood, gives us ownership of our writing ability. It takes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. — Julia Cameron Copy Share
There's this mythology that parents are supposed to be parents 24/7 and are supposed to be completely fulfilled by their kids. That's not the… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find… — Julia Cameron Copy Share
