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
lying survival attention
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention...the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
flower creativity green
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
heart creativity creative
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
heart unique needs
My will for you is not harsh or unpleasant. It is gentle and perfectly tailored to your unique needs. Do not fear my direction. I am your heart's happiest guide.
writing love-life creativity
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 makes life lovely and lively.
uplifting hands helping
Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.
growth tears our-future
Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.
writing should
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
believe creativity reality
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
powerful creative gentle
As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.
art self creative
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
procrastination names forgiving
Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
change choices
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours.
writing play piano
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.