The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
Don’t people realize that fame is no talisman against human pain?
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
If we let ourselves notice, writing feels collaborative.
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
We must be small enough, humble enough, to always be a beginner, an observer. We must be open to experience, new experience, new sources of knowledge and insight, while still staying grounded in the fact that what we already know and have done is also estimable, also important. In short, we must stay big enough to recognize that any individual crit
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We have a mythology that tells us that writing is a torturous activity.
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
with a product-not-process orientation like this, is it any wonder that the aspiring writer is seized by anxiety?
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
how do we stay both small enough and big enough to create?
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
One thing I know about writing is that you do not have to be in the mood to do it.
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
take on the patina of being cherished.
Julia Cameron • The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter. We are no longer envious bystanders standing on the sidelines and muttering, “I’d love to, but ...”