Top 400 Julia Cameron Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “In daily life there is an inner transition I can consciously practice. This is the transition from fear to faith. Faced with ambiguity and uncertainty, I can choose to believe things will work out for the best.”

— Julia Cameron

302. “Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships.”

— Julia Cameron

303. “You are asked to keep a ledger – a small notebook will do – of money in and money out. Counting brings clarity, and clarity is one of the first and finest fruits of prosperity.”

— Julia Cameron

304. “I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.”

— Julia Cameron

305. “When the mind becomes quiet, you feel nourished. SWAMI CHIDVILASANANDA.”

— Julia Cameron

306. “Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. KABIR.”

— Julia Cameron

307. “Our modern ideas of ‘functioning’ through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.”

— Julia Cameron

308. “To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it. MOTHER TERESA.”

— Julia Cameron

309. “When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfil 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.”

— Julia Cameron

310. “I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. DUKE ELLINGTON.”

— Julia Cameron

311. “Younger artists are seedlings. Their early work resembles thicket and underbrush, even weeds. The halls of academia, with their preference for lofty intellectual theorems, do little to support the life of the forest floor.”

— Julia Cameron

312. “Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.”

— Julia Cameron

313. “I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn’t know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don’t have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels.”

— Julia Cameron

314. “A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.”

— Julia Cameron

315. “Without them, our dreams may remain terra incognita. I know mine did. Using them, the light of insight is coupled with the power for expansive.”

— Julia Cameron

316. “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 tendered conscious.”

— Julia Cameron

317. “Often God shuts a door in our face, And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go. CATHERINE MARSHALL.”

— Julia Cameron

318. “Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”

— Julia Cameron

319. “Jealousy tells us there is room for only one – one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.”

— Julia Cameron

320. “Think of me as deep music. You can always hear me if you try.”

— Julia Cameron

321. “We forget that the imagination-at-play is at the heart of all good work.”

— Julia Cameron

322. “To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information with. With our own eyes we see, and with our skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. SOPHY BURNHAM.”

— Julia Cameron

323. “We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.”

— Julia Cameron

324. “Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.”

— Julia Cameron

325. “Pages clarify our yearnings. They keep an eye on our goals. They may provoke us, coax us, comfort us, even cajole us, as well as prioritize and synchronize the day at hand. If we are drifting, the pages will point that out. They will point the way True North. Each morning, as we face the page, we meet ourselves. The pages give us a place to vent and a place to dream. They are intended for no eyes but our own.”

— Julia Cameron

326. “Making art is an act of faith.”

— Julia Cameron

327. “Pages must be done longhand. The computer is fast – too fast for our purposes. Writing by computer gets you speed but not depth. Writing by computer is like driving a car at 85 mph. Everything is a blur. “Oh, my God, was that my exit?” Writing by hand is like going 35 mph. “Oh, look, here comes my exit. And look, it has a Sonoco station and a convenience store.”

— Julia Cameron

328. “Do not be discouraged by the ways in which you fall short. Every shortcoming is to me an opportunity for your growth.”

— Julia Cameron

329. “We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are. And if they don’t have to be, then what’s my excuse?”

— Julia Cameron

330. “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

331. “What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?”

— Julia Cameron

332. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur. LEO TOLSTOY Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves – even if it’s fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute minibath after work.”

— Julia Cameron

333. “Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.”

— Julia Cameron

334. “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

335. “I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! LOUISE BOGAN.”

— Julia Cameron

336. “In my travels, I encounter practitioners who have used the tools for years. “I’ve done Morning Pages for fifteen years,” a man recently told me. His Morning Pages – three pages of longhand, morning writing, have filled journal after journal. He doesn’t give them up, because they “work.” A woman tells me the second primary tool, Artist Dates, a once a week, festive, solo expedition, have given her a life of adventure. Used together, Morning Pages and Artist Dates do transform lives.”

— Julia Cameron

337. “Believe that I am your source. Affirm that and be prospered.”

— Julia Cameron

338. “Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.”

— Julia Cameron

339. “When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a journalist.’ And, uh, turned out we were both right.”

— Julia Cameron

340. “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 dissappear. 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

341. “Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. MEISTER ECKHART.”

— Julia Cameron

342. “When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and just settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us. We retire as the self-conscious author and become something else – the vehicle for self-expression. When we are just the vehicle, the storyteller and not the point of the story, we often write very well – we certainly write more easily.”

— Julia Cameron

343. “The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you’ve already got.”

— Julia Cameron

344. “Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. SHAKTI GAWAIN Blocked.”

— Julia Cameron

345. “The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

— Julia Cameron

346. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.”

— Julia Cameron

347. “God must become an activity in our consciousness. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH.”

— Julia Cameron

348. “I am the great comforter. I bring you solace, understanding, and hope. In times of despair, hope is what you have abandoned.”

— Julia Cameron

349. “When we write from the inside out rather than the outside in, when we write about what most concerns us rather than about what we feel might sell, we often write so well and so persuasively that the market responds to our efforts.”

— Julia Cameron

350. “We are always the same age inside. – GERTRUDE STEIN.”

— Julia Cameron