Julia Cameron

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

I think that 'Floor Sample' is a story of resiliency, a lifelong spiritual search, and a lifelong sense of spiritual companionship that is most often expressed as creativity. My desire in writing the book was to step from behind the icon of 'Julia the teacher' and introduce 'Julia the artist.'

You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.

Art used to be made in the name of faith. We made cathedrals, we made stained-glass windows, we made murals.

Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.

Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up to a larger connection. After a while, people tend to find that there is some muse that they are connecting to.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

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.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.