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
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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.
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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
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when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.
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Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
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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.
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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.
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Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
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If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.
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Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.
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Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
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Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.
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I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.
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Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.
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I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.