Julia Cameron Quotes

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection... We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it...to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely... When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking... I feel I lose my fire and my color.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner in one language and I feel that the liberation of creativity has to be in all senses. So I've been deciding to publishing something very simple but very small at the same time, nothing egocentric.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I used to love writing in my journal.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

Writing gave me a life.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.