The Interview: the self-help guru Julia Cameron on dealing with isolation
Louise Callaghan
Every afternoon at about 3pm, Julia Cameron, a 72-year-old author known within certain circles as the high priestess of creativity, goes for a walk with Lily, her small white dog, in the New Mexico mountains. She lives about 7,800ft above sea level in an adobe brick house, surrounded by things she l
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Every afternoon at about 3pm, Julia Cameron, a 72-year-old author known within certain circles as the high priestess of creativity, goes for a walk with Lily, her small white dog, in the New Mexico mountains. She lives about 7,800ft above sea level in an adobe brick house, surrounded by things she likes: green chilli plants, sagebrush and black beans. There are very few people around. In the winter, when she’s snowed in, she’s completely alone.

This is to say, she is an expert in social isolation. Twenty-eight years after she wrote the bestselling creativity guide The Artist’s Way — republished in the UK this year — Cameron is facing a public with time on their hands and a nagging feeling that they should change along