In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally ...
JULIA CAMERON When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum
JULIA CAMERON Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i...
JULIA CAMERON Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty s...
JULIA CAMERON I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learn...
JULIA CAMERON When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'go...
JULIA CAMERON Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made...
JULIA CAMERON Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a c...
JULIA CAMERON When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be...
JULIA CAMERON Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.
JULIA CAMERON Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pra...
JULIA CAMERON Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ord...
JULIA CAMERON What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, mon...
JULIA CAMERON Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
JULIA CAMERON When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someo...
JULIA CAMERON My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and out...
JULIA CAMERON When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting...
JULIA CAMERON Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimite...
JULIA CAMERON Basic Principles:

1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creati...
JULIA CAMERON Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very g...
JULIA CAMERON My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way...
JULIA CAMERON I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lif...
JULIA CAMERON A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers...
JULIA CAMERON For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of i...
JULIA CAMERON We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...
JULIA CAMERON I grew up in what you might call a relentlessly creative household. We were given art supplies, musi...
JULIA CAMERON In limits, there is freedom. Creativity thrives within structure. Creating safe havens where our chi...
JULIA CAMERON Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.The Artist's Wa...
JULIA CAMERON Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
JULIA CAMERON Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are m...
JULIA CAMERON Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
JULIA CAMERON Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as ...
JULIA CAMERON You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're no...
JULIA CAMERON Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in...
JULIA CAMERON Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch...
JULIA CAMERON You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember tha...
JULIA CAMERON The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention
JULIA CAMERON Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that ...
JULIA CAMERON I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that yo...
JULIA CAMERON Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism ha...
JULIA CAMERON Nothing dies harder than a bad idea
JULIA CAMERON Buy tabloids. Celebrity gossip is engrossing. Celebrity cellulite can make you forget turbulence.
JULIA CAMERON I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too...
JULIA CAMERON Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness
JULIA CAMERON Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
JULIA CAMERON Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.
JULIA CAMERON Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
JULIA CAMERON I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someo...
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them i...
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write ab...
JULIA GLASS Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in ...
JULIA GILLARD That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are ear...
JULIA GLASS From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. Al...
JULIA GLASS I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect....
JULIA MICHAELS When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you ...
JULIA ROBERTS Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you'...
JULIA CHILD I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Pet...
JULIA GILLARD When you first start out, people think this is super easy and you find your crew super quick. But yo...
JULIA MICHAELS Somewhat sadly, the survival of many bookstores now depends on selling merchandise other than books.
JULIA GLASS I was gonna throw the first pitch at a Mets game, but there was a rain delay. So I'm waiting for...
JULIA STILES From what far, heavenly height of hope Didst thou descend to light our way, Cleaving with flas...
JULIA LARNED I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look ...
JULIA ROBERTS We're not doing brain surgery. We're not saving lives... Even if you're doing Shakespear...
JULIA STILES when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insig...
JULIA GREGSON Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done.
JULIA WOODRUFF A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork ...
JULIA GLASS Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.
JULIA QUINN I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my li...
JULIA QUINN She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put y...
JULIA GREGSON It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.
JULIA FIERRO There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not ...
JULIA QUINN I bought you something" Willows blurts out.
"You bought...What?"
Willow closes her eyes fo...
JULIA HOBAN The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often th...
JULIA KAVANAGH Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes of...
JULIA ROBERTS If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL Life itself is the proper binge. -Julia Child.
JULIA CHILD What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read th...
JULIA ROBERTS What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read t...
JULIA ROBERTS And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.
JULIA QUINN If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly
JULIA HOBAN If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being a...
JULIA SWEENEY I like to stay balanced in life, so I don't have to do some radical diet. I love my job, and I o...
JULIA STILES I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They didn'...
JULIA CHILD I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
JULIA ROBERTS I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this ag...
JULIA STILES I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
JULIA LEIGH The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro...
JULIA GLASS I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my g...
JULIA ROBERTS The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love t...
JULIA CHILD What a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone proble...
JULIA CHILD If you listen to the radio, it's all men who are emotional and women who are sexual. There's...
JULIA MICHAELS I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that'...
JULIA ROBERTS I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.
JULIA ROBERTS I've never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I'm like the queen of the foreplay...
JULIA ROBERTS You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
JULIA ROBERTS Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best w...
JULIA ROBERTS Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth ...
JULIA ROBERTS Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.
JULIA ROBERTS I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.
JULIA ROBERTS My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cook...
JULIA ROBERTS I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kind...
JULIA ROBERTS Show me a mall, and I'm happy.
JULIA ROBERTS Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers co...
JULIA ROBERTS My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.
JULIA ROBERTS The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation fo...
JULIA ROBERTS You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of ...
JULIA ROBERTS I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've re...
JULIA ROBERTS If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.
JULIA ROBERTS True love doesn't come to you it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person...
JULIA SAWALHA I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.
JULIA STILES Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
JULIA MORGAN My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
JULIA MORGAN Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
JULIA MORGAN I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.
JULIA SAWALHA Usually, one's cooking is better than one thinks it is.
JULIA CHILD The art of bread making can become a consuming hobby, and no matter how often and how many kinds of ...
JULIA CHILD I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a love...
JULIA CHILD Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food pr...
JULIA CHILD To be able to serve and to eat a whole fish, especially a trout, is part of civilized dining. This a...
JULIA CHILD As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...
JULIA CHILD When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r...
JULIA CHILD In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a...
JULIA CHILD Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afra...
JULIA CHILD In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had a...
JULIA CHILD I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.
JULIA CHILD I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. ...
JULIA CHILD In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come i...
JULIA CHILD I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs...
JULIA CHILD You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season ...
JULIA CHILD Once you have mastered a technique, you hardly need look at a recipe again and can take off on your ...
JULIA CHILD I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who'...
JULIA CHILD Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
JULIA CHILD Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a wh...
JULIA CHILD I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he...
JULIA BARR The perfect dressing is essential to the perfect salad, and I see no reason whatsoever for using a b...
JULIA CHILD I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pic...
JULIA CHILD Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet ...
JULIA QUINN If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life
JULIA HOBAN I need a Kleenex.” She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
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JULIA HOBAN Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you ...
JULIA ROBERTS When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always...
JULIA GLASS To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and ...
JULIA SWEENEY I think with '10 Things I Hate About You,' I was an angsty teenager, and in some ways, I res...
JULIA STILES Alan had loved her breakfast pastries best; Charlie craved her pies. He liked them true-blue America...
JULIA GLASS I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you
JULIA HOBAN I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularl...
JULIA LEIGH In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters&...
JULIA GLASS I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
JULIA CHILD Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By na...
JULIA GILLARD I was successful and I enjoyed modeling, but it got to a point where I felt like I had 'been the...
JULIA VOTH Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader a...
JULIA ROBERTS Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to h...
JULIA SAWALHA I'm into the law of attraction and quantum physics. Like cosmic ordering. It's all about thi...
JULIA SAWALHA When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's ...
JULIA CHILD I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always...
JULIA GLASS I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a...
RAUL JULIA I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage c...
JULIA STILES At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude ...
JULIA GLASS In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't pa...
JULIA CHILD I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what you do, or who ...
JULIA ROBERTS Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, ...
JULIA CHILD I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I ...
JULIA ROBERTS Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent ...
JULIA GLASS I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a...
JULIA SAWALHA I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now ...
JULIA SAWALHA If I'm lucky enough to see the day when my sons are living independently, maybe with families of...
JULIA GLASS I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.
JULIA GLASS I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. So...
JULIA ROBERTS It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it...
JULIA CHILD I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thi...
JULIA ROBERTS I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I ...
JULIA VOTH Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - espe...
JULIA SAWALHA Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: you...
RAUL JULIA True love doesn't come to you, it has to be inside you.
JULIA ROBERTS I’m not trying to impress you,” he replied, glancing up at the front of the room. “Gads,” he...
JULIA QUINN I like analyzing human behavior. It's complex. That's what keeps me going.
JULIA STILES I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legit...
JULIA ROBERTS In college, I was a researcher/writer for 'Let's Go: Europe,' assigned to Crete and Cypr...
JULIA QUINN In the 1970s we got nouvelle cuisine, in which a lot of the old rules were kicked over. And then we ...
JULIA CHILD My parents always stressed finding some sort of creative outlet, so they would take me to dance clas...
JULIA STILES The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
JULIA CHILD A party without cake is just a meeting
JULIA CHILD When conflicts end non-violently, it's more likely that the result will be longer-lasting, democ...
JULIA BACHA I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies ...
JULIA LONDON In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to a...
JULIA GLASS I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that'...
JULIA ROBERTS Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cle...
JULIA GLASS I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
JULIA SAWALHA If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
JULIA SOUL The King is dead! Long live the King!
JULIA PARDOE We didn't know there was anything being built until today.
JULIA ALLEN