“I think we have a great deal of
mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I
wrote a book called The Right to Write. In it,
I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to
write as it is to speak.” – Julia Cameron
Born in Libertyville, IL on this
date in 1948, Cameron has been a teacher, artist, poet, playwright, filmmaker,
composer, journalist and author, most famous for her books on writing and
creativity. The Artist's Way, her first book and massive
bestseller, came out in 1992 and she has now written a remarkable 36 nonfiction
books, 2 novels, 6 plays, 4 books of poetry and many short stories, essays and
screenplays.
Bookending her first success, she
published Living the Artist’s Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity
in 2024 on the heels of another successful “How To” book Write for Life: A
Toolkit for Writers in 2023.
Cameron started her writing career
at the Washington Post before moving over to Rolling
Stone magazine. It was there that she met director Martin
Scorsese and after a somewhat tumultuous marriage, they divorced but
continued a close relationship, including collaborating on three films.
“I have learned, as a rule of thumb,
never to ask whether you can do something,” she said. “Say, instead,
that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things
follow.“
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