Julia Cameron
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Julia B. Cameron(born March 4, 1948) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for her book The Artist's Way(1992). She also has written many other non-fiction works, short stories, and essays, as well as novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays.
For the British photographer, see Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Julia B. Cameron
BornMarch 4, 1948(age 71)
Libertyville, Illinois, U.S.
ResidenceNew MexicoNationalityAmericanEducationGeorgetown University
Fordham UniversityOccupationTeacher, author, filmmaker, playwright, journalistKnown forThe Artist's WaySpouse(s)
Martin Scorsese
(m. 1976;div. 1977)
Mark BryanChildren1WebsiteJulia Cameron Live
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Biography
Julia Cameron was born inLibertyville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and raised Catholic. She was the second oldest of seven children.She started college at Georgetown University before transferring to Fordham University. She wrote for The Washington Postand then Rolling Stone.
She met Martin Scorsese while on assignment for Oui Magazine. They married in 1976 and divorced a year later in 1977; Cameron was Scorsese's second wife. They have one daughter, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, born in 1976. The marriage ended after Scorsese began seeing Liza Minnelli while the three of them were working on New York, New York.Cameron and Scorsese collaborated on three films. Her memoir Floor Sample details her descent into alcoholism and drug addiction, which induced blackouts, paranoia and psychosis. In 1978, reaching a point in her life when writing and drinking could no longer coexist,Cameron stopped abusing drugs and alcohol, and began teaching creative unblocking, eventually publishing the book based on her work: The Artist's Way. At first she sold Xeroxed copies of the book in a local bookstore before it was published by TarcherPerigee in 1992. She contends that creativity is an authentic spiritual path.
Cameron has taught filmmaking, creative unblocking, and writing. She has taught at The Smithsonian, Esalen, the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, and the New York Open Center. At Northwestern University, she was writer in residence for film. In 2008 she taught a class at the New York Open Center, The Right to Write,named and modeled after one of her bestselling books, which reveals the importance of writing. She continues to teach regularly around the world.[citation needed]
Cameron has lived in Los Angeles,Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C., but now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bibliography
Nonfiction
It's Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond(Tarcher, 2016)
The Artist's Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children(Tarcher/Hay House, 2013)
The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of "Enough"(Tarcher/Hay House, 2011; ISBN 978-1-58542-897-7)
Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives(Tarcher, 2010; ISBN 1585428019)
The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration(Tarcher, 2010)
The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living (Tarcher, 2009)
Prayers to the Great Creator: Prayers and Declarations for a Meaningful Life (Tarcher, 2008)
The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size (Tarcher, 2007; ISBN 1-58542-571-0)
Floor Sample(Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1-58542-494-3), a memoir
How to Avoid Making Art(2006; ISBN 1-58542-438-2), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron
Letters to a Young Artist(Tarcher, 2005)
The Sound of Paper (Tarcher, 2004; Hardcover ISBN 1-58542-288-6)
Supplies: A Troubleshooting Guide for Creative Difficulties(Tarcher, 2003; Rev&Updtd edition ISBN 1-58542-212-6)
Walking in this World (Tarcher, 2003; Reprint edition ISBN 1-58542-261-4)
The Artist's Way, 10th Annv edition(Tarcher, 2002; ISBN 1-58542-146-4)
Inspirations: Meditations from The Artist's Way(Tarcher, 2001;ISBN 1-58542-102-2)
God is Dog Spelled Backwards(Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-062-X)
God is No Laughing Matter (Tarcher, 2000; ISBN 1-58542-065-4)
Supplies: A Pilot's Manual for Creative Flight (2000)
The Artist's Date Book(Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-653-8 ), illustrated by Elizabeth Cameron Evans
Money Drunk Money Sober(Ballantine Wellspring, 1999; ISBN 0-345-43265-7)
The Writing Life(Sounds True, 1999; ISBN 1-56455-725-1)
Transitions(Tarcher, 1999; ISBN 0-87477-995-2)
The Artist's Way at Work (Pan, 1998; ISBN 0-330-37319-6)
Blessings(Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 0-87477-906-5)
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life(Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 1-58542-009-3)
Heart Steps(Tarcher, 1997; ISBN 0-87477-899-9)
The Vein of Gold (1997; ISBN 0-87477-836-0)
The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal(Tarcher, 1995; ISBN 0-87477-886-7)
Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance(Tarcher, 2006; ISBN 1585424633)
The Money Drunk (1993)
The Artist's Way(1992)
Fiction
Popcorn: Hollywood Stories (Really Great Books, 2000; ISBN 1-893329-12-7)
The Dark Room(Carroll & Graf Pub,1998; ISBN 0-7867-0564-7)
Musicals
Avalon
Magellan
The Medium at Large
Plays
Four Roses
Public Lives
The Animal in the Trees
Poetry collections
This Earth(Sounds True, 1997; ISBN 1-56455-549-6)
Prayers for the little ones(Renaissance Books, 1999; ISBN 1-58063-048-0)
Prayers to the nature spirits(Renaissance Books, 1999; ISBN 1-58063-047-2)
The Quiet Animal
Film/TV
Miami Vice TV (1 episode)
God's Will(independent movie)
References
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External links
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Julia Cameron (born 4 March 1948) is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist, most famous for her book The Artist's Way (1992).
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The Artist's Way (1992)Edit
The Artist's Way : A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature.
Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough — that we should try again.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them groworganically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.
The Right to Write (1998)Edit
The Right to Write : An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life(Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 1-58542-009-3
For most of us, the seductive and unstated part of "if I had enough time" is the unstated sentence "to hear myself think." In other words, we imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook— if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for what is trying to bubble up today.
Blessings (1998)Edit
Blessings: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life (Tarcher, 1998; ISBN 0-87477-906-5
Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is "Blessing."
Focused on our good, focused on our abundance we naturally attract more of the same. This is spiritual law. Our consciousness is creative. What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively.
Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotionwhich needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.
I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We blesseach other even in passing.
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