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Julia Cameron
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Julia Cameron
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
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When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
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Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.
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Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and lay it down. I can pare it, shape it, and polish it later...My job is to take down the dribs and drabs - to free-associate, if you will, knowing that the associations have their own plans for where we're going with all this.
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we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
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It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.
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It hurts like hell when the world won't invest in you. But it's excruciating, almost more than you can bear, when you don't believe and invest in yourself.
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God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
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Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is, and the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
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It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.
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Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.
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What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?
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Creativity is a spiritual issue.
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It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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You are your own Promised Land, your own new frontier.
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Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
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