Julia Cameron Quotes

I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

Writing has become such an outlet for me that when I don't have it, I just get pent up.

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

I find it easier to write about stuff that is frustrating.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.

Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.