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 reality alive
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
real focus world
As you explore your inner world, your outer world will come more sharply into focus. As you face your imagined barriers, you will encounter real ones, as well.
real believe artist
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.
real creativity order
In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
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.
breathing realizing moments
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
breakdown divorce experience good hear people realize takes talk
In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.
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.