Julia Cameron Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Breathing, Matter

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.12, Penguin

• 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.

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

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Should

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 17, 2016

• We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Ideas, Needs

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jul 15, 2013

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

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

• I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move through me, in a sense, what wants to be written is none of my business.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.25, Penguin

• An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Love Life, Creativity

• Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

  Julia Cameron

  Rain, Writing, Air

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

• Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Heart, Love Is

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.37, Penguin

• It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

  Julia Cameron

  Art, Pain, Adventure

• But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Play, Piano

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.51, Souvenir Press

• Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Heart, Profound

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

• Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Cherish, Acts Of Love

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.20, Penguin

• 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

• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Passion, Writing, Yield

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.11, Penguin

• 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

  Writing, Trying, Limited Time

• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Dancing, Needs

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

• When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Conscious, Fluid

• 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

  Morning, Writing, Character

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

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Reality, Alive

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

• Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Writing, Creativity

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

• 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

• 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

  Book, Home, Writing

• When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Over You, May

  "The Artist's Way: An Interview With Julia Cameron". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. January 23, 2014.

• Left to it's own devices, writing is like weather. It has a drama, a form, a force to it that shapes the day. Just as good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche. There is something very right about simply letting yourself write. And the way to do that is to begin, to begin where you are.

  Julia Cameron

  Drama, Rain, Writing

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

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