Julia Cameron Quotes

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.

We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own. We should write because humans are spiritual beings and writing is a powerful form of prayer and meditation, connecting us both to our own insights and to a higher and deeper level of inner guidance.

We should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. Writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. We should write because writing is good for the soul. We should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.

We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

The great acting coach Michael Chekhov advised his students, “If you want to work on your art, work on your life.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite — getting something down.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner’s humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step . . . .

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. ANAÏS NIN

The perfectionist is never satisfied. The perfectionist never says, "This is pretty good. I think I’ll just keep going." To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist call this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue. 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. No. We should not.

Boredom is just “What’s the use?” in disguise. And “What’s the use?” is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.

There is a path for each of us. When we are on our right path, we have a surefootedness. We know the next right action — Although not necessarily what is just around the bend.

The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.