Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.

— Julia Cameron

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

— Julia Cameron

Leap, and the net will appear.

— Julia Cameron

Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough.

— Julia Cameron

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if... If we had known who we really were.

— Julia Cameron

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

— Julia Cameron

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

— Julia Cameron

Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.

— Julia Cameron

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

— Julia Cameron

Procrastination is not Laziness," I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

— Julia Cameron