Julia Cameron Quotes

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

Keeping a diary supports personal development.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

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

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I write for myself things that I've gone through.

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

I do a lot of journaling.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

I've never been a confessional writer.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing.

I write to discover what I think.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.