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Writing Quotes by Julia Cameron

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Julia Cameron likens a good writing day to rain that clears the air, saying that writing can refresh the psyche and make thoughts flow like fresh breezes. She also describes writing as a habit of breathing, best learned through gentle scheduling and a dedicated space that invites the mind to settle and create.

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

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

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Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

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

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

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

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

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

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But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act /…

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

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We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never…

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

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

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Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.

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

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We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on…

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Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the…

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And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing…

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

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We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you…

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My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows…

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We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a…

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When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out.…

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Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I…

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Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do…

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

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“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans.…

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“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.…

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

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

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

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

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I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less…

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I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that…

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Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin…

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I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it.…

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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write…

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I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't…

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While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of…

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All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of…

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

Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

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

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…

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing…

I am compassionate. I allow my heart and imagination to embrace the difficulties and concerns of others. While maintaining my own balance, I find…

All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.