Julia Cameron Quotes

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up.

I don't believe in writer's block.

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

Imagination decides everything.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.

As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

I really believe that cultivating creativity, as a general principle, is about managing your energy.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.