All Cheryl Strayed Quotes
- The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence… Aspiring
- You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to… All
- I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she… All
- I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a… Away Please
- When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly… Brush
- Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it Doe
- No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships… Amount
- The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. Abundance
- We are all at risk of something. Of ending up exactly where we began, of failing to imagine and find and know and actualize who… Actualize
- People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push… All
- The complicated thing about friends is that sometimes they are totally wrong about us and sometimes they are totally right and it's almost always only… Almost Always
- Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to… Choice
- There is a path toward the light. The one that goes blink, blink, blink inside your chest when you know what you're doing is right.… Blink
- And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with… Consequence
- Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Hard
- In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story. Equation
- Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed. Any
- But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things… All
- I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right. Edit
- I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go. Direction
- My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. Died
- Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our… Advice
- I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. Artist
- I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. Go
- I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living. Amount