It was in the early '70s that Julia Cameron met Martin Scorsese. "I was at a lunch table at the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis hotel and he walked in, sat down, and I said, 'My God, I've met the man I'm going to marry!'" she told Bookpage. "I had never thought about getting married. I had always thought I was going to be a writer so I had pictured a sort of solitary path. But when I met Martin, I just fell totally in love. He was enchanting; he still is." The two married in 1976; Cameron was Scorsese's second wife.
Cameron struggled with alcoholism throughout the early years of the marriage before getting sober in 1978. It was a rough road from there, but one that paid off. "I lost a world but I gained a world. I lost Martin and all of our mutual friends, and for a long time I thought the party had moved on without me. Everyone else kept right on moving at high velocity and I skidded to a halt and said, this has to change or I'm dead," she said.
From there, she moved between Taos, New Mexico; Los Angeles; and New York, putting together a guide for writers, and for herself, that would become her famous book "The Artist's Way," The New York Times reported. Recommendations in the book include writing three pages first thing in the morning on any topic and scheduling time for inspiration to strike.
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