16 Julia Cameron Quotes to Inspire You to Write (About Anything!)
A Spiritual, Intuitive Approach to Creativity
Julia Cameron is the modern mother of approaching creativity as a spiritual act. She views creative expression as intuitive, presenting it not as something we’re trying to do, but as a process of allowing.
She has been integral to my journey of reclaiming the writer within me, so I figured I would gather up some of her quotes that’ve inspired me and humbled my approach to the act of creation.
Hopefully they’ll stir something inside you as well, at the very least reminding you that creativity is your birthright, sown into your being.
(Note: All bolding has been done by me for emphasis.)
1. “If I was ‘making something up,’ I was straining to reach for something that might be beyond my grasp. If I was ‘getting something down,’ I was taking direction from a higher source.”
- Friendly reminder that “a higher source” is whatever you want it to be.
- I like to think of this “getting something down” as a download, as listening, receiving. It’s a very different process than the straining to write something clever/interesting/insightful/whatever.
2. “I came to believe that creativity is God’s…
