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 practice life-is
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
spiritual art practice
Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
inspiration practice radio-waves
Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.
practice clothes long
Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything.
jobs believe practice
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.
spiritual creativity practice
Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.
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.
life creativity gestation-period
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
art play imagination
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.
attention capacity delight gift paying
The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention
activity mother
My mother set us to an activity and let us be.
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?'
everybody
I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.