Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

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• Julia Cameron:

  The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

• Julia Cameron:

  Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

• Julia Cameron:

  Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

• Julia Cameron:

  I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that y

• Julia Cameron:

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• Julia Cameron:

  Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that

• Julia Cameron:

  Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

• Julia Cameron:

  Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited a

• Julia Cameron:

  When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you d

• Julia Cameron:

  I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and