Writing is a way not only to metabolize life but to alchemize it as well. It is a way to transform what happens to us in our own experience. It is a way to move from passive to active. We may still be the victims of circumstance, but by our understanding those circumstances we place events within the ongoing context of our own life, that is, the life we "own". Julia Cameron
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
-
Sylvia Plath
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
-
Ray Bradbury
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
-
Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-
Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But...
-
Stephen King
More Quotes By Julia Cameron
It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
