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
everybody
I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.
morning notice wake
I always start everything with the weather, because the weather is the first thing that I notice when I wake up in the morning.
deck enticing house hung outside room
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
god known work
My work unblocks people, and then I look at the work that they do, and I think, 'My God, how could they not have known they were talented? How could they not have known?'
art opposite thinking
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way
fulfilled supposed
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 case. We need to make our own passions a priority.
thinking goal creative
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
writing talking response
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
writing reality alive
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
writing dancing needs
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
writing more-time dominant
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.
writing practice life-is
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
work creativity spirituality
If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
baby block progress-not-perfection
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.