Julia Cameron Quotations | Page 2

Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...

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.

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.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

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.

Adversity is a misperception as all works toward the good.

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.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

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.