Julia Cameron Morning Pages Quotes & Sayings

By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out. — Steve Hagen

Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display. — Julia Cameron

I still don't understand why the pages must be done in the morning. I write so much better at night. Let me be clear: good writing is not the point. Think of your pages like a whisk broom. You stick the broom into all the corners of your consciousness. If you do this first thing in the morning, you are laying out your track for the day. Pages tell you of your priorities. With the pages in place first thing, you are much less likely to fall in with others' agendas. Your day is your own to spend. You've claimed it. If you wait to write pages at night, you are reviewing a day that has already happened and that you are powerless to change. — Julia Cameron

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets. — Julia Cameron

They were so predictable. And adorable. And so in love with each other it hurt to look at them. — Shelly Crane

You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol. — William G. Boykin

JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!"
"Um," I said.
"We kissed," the Duke said.
"That's kinda gay," Keun said.
"I AM A GIRL."
"Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said. — John Green

What does pouring out your heart to God do? He already knows all what goes on in your heart and mind, right?
Pouring out your heart to Him starts the flow of intimacy with Him. It lets Him know that you want to share your innermost being with Him and that you truly want intimacy with Him. The act of sharing opens your heart and life up to intimacy with Him. — Linda Boone

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If — John Calvin

I started writing morning pages just to keep my hand in, you know, just because I was a writer and I didn't know what else to do but write. And then one day as I was writing, a character came sort of strolling in and I realized, Oh my God, I don't have to be just a screenwriter. I can write novels. — Julia Cameron

Next to Morning Pages and Artist Dates, the most potent tool for contacting inner guidance and creativity is walking. — Julia Cameron

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it. — Colin Meloy

But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge. — Terri Blackstock

People feared what was different, and whoever was the most different would win the witch-hunt lottery. — Dan Wells

Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains. — John Updike

Will you tell me how long you have loved him?"
"It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. — Jane Austen

I've laid my friends bare. — J.K. Rowling