On my shelf this week:
The Unspeakable, by Meghan Daum
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron
This week I’m reading a nonfiction book of essays from Meghan Daum (super good), a new book club selection and a creativity book that’s broken up into course-like instruction pieces.
Best quotes so far:
“Creativity is God’s gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.”
Julia Cameron
“Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.”
Julia Cameron
“Always remember that your Censor’s negative opinions are not the truth.”
Julia Cameron
“We have this idea that we have to be in the mood to write. We don’t.”
Julia Cameron
“Art is an artist-brain pursuit. The artist brain is our image brain, home and haven to our best creative impulses. The artist brain cannot be reached—or triggered—effectively by words alone. The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art.”
Julia Cameron
Read any of these? Tell us what you thought.
Or tell us what’s on your shelf.
