Julia Cameron Quotes - Page 10

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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.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Talking, Response

  "Becoming Intimate With Your Own Creative Impulses". Interview with Brad Crawford, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.

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• Writing just for the hell of it is heaven.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Creativity, Heaven

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.30, Penguin

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• What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

  Julia Cameron

  Thinking, Goal, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.145, Souvenir Press

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• We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

  Julia Cameron

  Time, Writing, Perfect

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.23, Penguin

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• In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond... If we don't give some attention to upkeep, our well is apt to become depleted, stagnant, or blocked... As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them - to re-stock the trout pond, so to speak.

  Julia Cameron

  Creativity, Artist, Self

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• In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

  Julia Cameron

  Baby, Block, Progress Not Perfection

  Julia Cameron (2001). “Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way”, p.42, Penguin

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• Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Giving, Environment

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.13, Penguin

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• If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy.

  Julia Cameron

  Talent, Busy, Too Busy

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Creative, Leap Of Faith

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• It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

  Julia Cameron

  Depression, Crazy, Feels Just

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• If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Mind, Want

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• You are either losing your mind -- or gaining your soul.

  Julia Cameron

  Clock Is Ticking, Soul, Mind

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.244, Penguin

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• Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.

  Julia Cameron

  Color, Ideas, Lines

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.77, Penguin

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• I am due at the page.

  Julia Cameron

  Pages, Dues

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.43, Penguin

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• I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Injury, I Am What I Am

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.35, Penguin

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• It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.

  Julia Cameron

  Teacher, Block, Moving

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.17, Souvenir Press

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• Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, People, Soul

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

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  Holiday, Disruption, Tempo

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

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  Creativity, Creative, Junk

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.28, Souvenir Press

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

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  Love, Listening, Nature Love

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

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  Art, Ideas, Harder

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.13, Souvenir Press

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

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  Love, Heart, Plant

  Julia Cameron (1998). “Blessings”, p.17, Penguin

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• There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

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  Frustration, Artistic Life, Done

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Editors, Said

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, House

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