Julia Cameron Quotes

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Part of my therapy is to write.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

I've always been pretty in touch with what I'm feeling.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

I think that writing is a process that tells you what you think. You sometimes actually don't know what your opinion is until you hear yourself trying to piece it out and have it make sense to you. The process itself is so bizarre and mysterious that you never know what it's going to tell you.

See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

I've always written down how I feel.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.