Julia Cameron Quotes

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.