Quotes from Julia Cameron

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

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.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

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.'

It's impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.

Creativity is God's will for us and should be practiced like any other spiritual practice -a day at a time.

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.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.

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.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

The growth of one blesses all. I am commited to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.

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.

I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.