Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. - Julia Cameron
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
The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. - Julia Cameron
When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. - Julia Cameron
Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools teach educate us intellectually but not artistically. We learn to deconstruct art, not construct it. - Julia Cameron
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. - Julia Cameron
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. - Julia Cameron
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. - Julia Cameron
I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life. - Julia Cameron