Julia Cameron Quotes

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

“Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.”
― Julia Cameron

“ Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
― Julia Cameron

“Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity