“When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.”

American author and artist

Julia Cameron is an American author, artist, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, composer, and journalist. She is best known for The Artist's Way, published in 1992, and has 92 quotes on the site. Her work ranges widely across nonfiction, short fiction, essays, novels, plays, musicals, and screenplays. Across that body of work, she is especially associated with writing about creativity and artistic practice, through both her books and her broader career as a teacher and maker of many forms.