Julia Cameron Quotes

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

I've always been a writer.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Listen more than you talk.

It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

I'm a writer. I'm moonlighting on television. I never made any pretensions to that. As much as I like being on 'Real Sports,' I have been a writer since I was a little boy, and that's still my first love.

I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.'