Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a convictionwhich is naive and misplacedthat being published has to do with being good while not being published has to do with being amateur. ...Did you write today?Yes.Then youre a writer today.It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. Its not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final credit must come from.
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Julia Cameron was American author. Julia B. Cameron is an American teacher, author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Creativity — The spark of original thought, invention, and artistic vision