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
art opposite thinking
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Way
thinking goal creative
What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
creativity thinking sea
If you think of the universe as a vast electrical sea in which you are immersed and from which you are formed, opening to your creativity changes you from something bobbing in that sea to a more fully functioning, more conscious, more cooperative part of that ecosystem.
thinking editors said
When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.
dream thinking accustomed
We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.
children healing thinking
No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.
writing thinking house
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. 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.
art thinking making-love
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
confused heart thinking
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.
thinking mastery mystery
Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
strong thinking giving
We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength
focused people
People get so focused on the big dream that they forget about the process.
access centers fiscal illusion money mythology prosperity
So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.
embrace life people prosperous tools
The tools of 'The Prosperous Heart' help people to embrace the life that they actually have, where they often find that they already have 'enough.'