The Writing Diet Quotes

“I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“I walk daily, stretching my soul as well as my legs. As I walk, I pray for creative guidance.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Pray on the page. Write a prayer.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“When I stopped overeating, I became conscious of my environment.” Some of us declutter, some of us paint, some of us move our furniture. All of us experience the phenomenon that Clean Eating leads to cleaner living.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“We do need to fall in love—with ourselves. We need to dress ourselves in attractive and appealing clothing, the kind we might wear if we did have a new beau. Instead of suffering through a regimen of basic black, we need to choose colors that flatter us. We need to shop for apparel in sizes that actually fit.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Dressed in feminine finery, we send a signal—to ourselves first and then to others—that we are lovable, sensual, and sexual.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Fitness isn’t a destination; it’s a daily practice that takes maintenance. When I miss a workout, I feel it.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“When we overeat, we lower our libido. We sedate our sexuality. And even if the urge to merge remains, we tell ourselves we’re too plump to be pleasing.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“12-step parlance to observe the acronym HALT. As they work to establish abstinence, they are repeatedly told, “Don’t get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Writing instead of bingeing was like taking truth serum,”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Food itself is not the enemy. Our use and abuse of food is the issue. Learning to dine out well and carefully is a social skill that stands us in good stead. It takes energy to say no when we are tempted by the bread basket—better to think of it as saying yes to something else. This is why studying the menu ahead of time can be a great asset. Often there are healthful appetizers and salads that are all too easily overlooked.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“As easy as a game, the ritual of asking the four questions gently but thoroughly awakens our awareness of exactly when we are eating and what. Those questions again: Am I hungry? Is this what I feel like eating? Is this what I feel like eating now? Is there something else that I could eat instead?”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Walking yields us a sense of connection. We walk alone and yet we find ourselves a part of a larger world. “Walking makes me feel I am a part of the city,” Denise reports of her daily walks in Manhattan. “Faces are often friendly, even in crowds. I like the sense that I am one among many, that I am on my rounds as others are on theirs.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Brenda Ueland, the famed writing teacher, recommended a habit of walking for inspiration “alone and every day.” She believed that walking revved the engine of inspiration. Novelist John Nichols walks daily. So does writing teacher Natalie Goldberg. The British Lake poets were all great walkers. (Is it an accident that poetry is divided into “feet”?) Their hours on foot were surpassed only by their output on the page. All of us can increase our out-flow by walking. Walking is a surefire path to creativity.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Honored spiritual traditions recognize this fact. The English walked to Canterbury. The Muslims trek to Mecca. Native Americans pursue vision quests by walking out into the wilderness. Druids and Wiccans walk ley lines in pursuit of spiritual knowledge. In Tibet, the very word for “human” translates as “a goer” or “one who goes on migrations.” We can take a cue from these ancient traditions. A habit of walking yields spiritual and creative breakthroughs.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“I think of walking as meditation,” asserts Chrissy, a fledgling Buddhist. “When I do my Morning Pages, I am ‘sending,’ but when I am out on a walk, I am able to receive. I have always had a hard time with sitting meditation. I seem to need to be in motion in order to receive.” Zen Master Dogen speaks of this process as “the walking of the self.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“The habit of walking tutors us in the art of intuition. It amplifies what mystics call “the still, small voice.” “Solvitur ambulando,” St. Augustine observed: “It is solved by walking.” When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“As I walk, I pray to grow gracefully, to go along with God’s intentions instead of insisting on my own.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Weight loss is a process. At its best, it is gradual and gentle—so gentle, it is almost imperceptible. One day, “suddenly,” we are thinner. Our clothes fit more loosely. We have more energy. We feel more ourselves. We have lost weight and we have often done it after repeated, unsuccessful attempts to do it. We have finally found the right something or somethings that help us to chisel off the pounds.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Very often you will find that you are eating instead of taking a creative action.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Morning Pages are a route to happiness. For many people that happiness is expressed as weight loss.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Much to their surprise, people get happy when they write. Once we get used to it, writing is as natural as breathing—and almost as necessary. Moving our pen across the page, we come into focus to ourselves. Emotions long avoided become familiar. Perceptions become clearer. Boundaries begin to fall in place. Guided by our own hand, without years of costly therapy, we begin to break our unhealthy patterns and dependencies. We become true to ourselves—and more true to others.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Writing “rights” things. Dead-end jobs are abandoned. Ditto for dead-end relationships. Energy is spent along new and more productive lines. Dreams that were elusive begin to seem possible. As we become increasingly unblocked, our lives flourish. As we become more fit, our lives become more fitting.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Writing “rights” things.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“I hate this job,” we write. “It’s prestigious, but there’s too much stress for too little reward.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“It takes courage to undertake Morning Pages, but pages themselves give us courage. In the privacy of our journal, we admit the secrets we have been harboring. Once aired, those secrets lose their power to tyrannize us. Our pen is the scalpel with which we lance the psychic infections we have been carrying. “I hate this job,” we write. “It’s prestigious, but there’s too much stress for too little reward.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Writing is the key.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“As you lose weight, you will stop waiting for the magic wand that will transform your life. Instead, you will realize that the magic wand is actually a pen and that, pen in hand, you can transform your own life.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“All of us are creative and all of us can be more creative than we are. As we relinquish our blocking devices, we come into our power.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size

“Long experience as a writer has taught me that writing is a way to metabolize life. If I can write about something, I can handle it—and often with grace.”
― Julia Cameron, The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size