Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron
Julia B. Cameronis an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is most famous for her book The Artist's Way. She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1948
CountryUnited States of America
writing trying waste
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.
spiritual writing practice
Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.
pages dues
I am due at the page.
creativity creative use
It is the use of creativity which heals the creative wound.
moving destiny grace
Our moods and insights are transitory. This current is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
moving inspiration exercise
Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.
games doors love-of-money
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that
hurt believe world
It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
get-better looks impossible
It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
heart world my-heart
My heart holds the world in tender awe.
clock-is-ticking soul mind
You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.
art art-is
Making art is an act of faith.
flower exercise two
There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
horse disappointment hard-times
You are on the look out for experience, strength, and hope. You want to hear from the horse's mouth exactly how disappointments have been survived. It helps to know that the greats have had hard times too and that your own hard times merely make you part of the club.