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.

— Julia Cameron

Grab for time to write instead of wait for time.

— Julia Cameron

I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and the tree will accommodate its loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish similarly, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.

— Julia Cameron

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

— Julia Cameron

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

— Julia Cameron

If we are interested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product - for the body of work and not for the quick hit of one well-realized piece.

— Julia Cameron

If we eliminate the word "writer", if we just go back to writing as an act of listening and naming what we hear, some of the rules disappear. There is an organic shape, a form-coming-into-form that is inherent in the thing we are observing, listening to, and trying to put on the page. It has rules of its own that it will reveal to us if we listen with attention. Shape does not need to be imposed. Shape is a part of what we are listening to. When we just let ourselves write, we get it "right".

— Julia Cameron

If we have plain old ordinary fear then we are within reach of a solution. Fear has been with humankind for millennia, and we do know what to do about it--pray about it, talk about it, feel the fear, and do it anyway. "Artistic" fear, on the other hand, sounds somehow nastier and more virulent, like it just might not yield to ordinary solutions--and, yet it does, the moment we become humble enough to try ordinary solutions.

— Julia Cameron

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

— Julia Cameron

It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.

— Julia Cameron