title: The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration
author:  Julia Cameron 
description: In her life, Cameron has learned to seize whatever moments of creative time she can get. "Small tidbits add up to a larger whole," she says, one of the compact yet insightful truisms that make up this volume of enlightening analogies, confessions, and vignettes of Cameron's life on New York's Upper West Side. From dinners and musicals to teaching engagements and writing sessions, Cameron's latest contribution to her already extensive list of titles is something of a diary, exposing her personal life with unexpected honesty and humility. A spat with her inner censor, a made up "gay British designer" she's named Nigel, gives the book a light-hearted and relatable tone. Colorful characters, including actors turned writers, musicians turned songwriters, poets turned playwrights, and songwriter-bakers, make up an encouraging community of creators. Practical, productive, and passionate, Cameron and her Believing Mirrors ("people who see our power and potential and reflect it back at us") show the artistic way in an organic light that makes it seem approachable and attainable, revealing how living creatively can be as calibrated as a work of fiction. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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                               Dedicated to my wife Sarah. 
  
  Created for the approximate effect of having creativity sparks. 
  © Copyright 2020 
   
  Disclaimer: 
  The author maintains this as a work of fiction. All names, characters and places are fictional. Any 
  resemblance to a live person, thing or object is pure coincidence. 
   
  Published by Harper Collins. 
   First published 2016 
    
  Impression number 20 19 18 17 16 15 Year 2020 Copyright © Jim Carter 
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