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Writing Quotes by Julia Cameron
- Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
- An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This…
- While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex…
- Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. Â It has nothing to do with fixing things. Â It has nothing to do with…
- And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing…
- Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart…
- Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.
- Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them.…
- Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as…
- Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.
- I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I…
- Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
- Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and…
- Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush…
- I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else…
- When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat…
- We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to…
- we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is…
- Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
- Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold