Julia Cameron Quotes

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Julia Cameron

Control, Creative, Process

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron

Work, Money, Play

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Julia Cameron

Forward, Yourself, Remember

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Julia Cameron

Learned, Whether, Ask

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron

Life, Human, Creativity

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.
Julia Cameron

Faith, Creativity, Stage

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.
Julia Cameron

Faith, Trust, Courage

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Julia Cameron

Good, Best, Nothing

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.
Julia Cameron

Art, Thinking, Down

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
Julia Cameron

Time, Great, May

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.
Julia Cameron

Spiritual, Help, Nothing

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.
Julia Cameron

God, Morning, Character

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron

Life, Love, Everything

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.
Julia Cameron

Writing, Different, Around

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
Julia Cameron

Heart, Creativity, Surprise

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
Julia Cameron

Bad, Nothing, Idea

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.
Julia Cameron

Help, Creativity, Ask

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.
Julia Cameron

Hope, Said, Both

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.
Julia Cameron

Home, Book, Down

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 4, 1948

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