Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Entire life Copy Share Image
“You need a droughtbreaker, baby. Gotta go find yo'self a rainmaker.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Convince Copy Share Image
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has… — Elizabeth Gilbert Accidents Copy Share Image
I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing… — Elizabeth Gilbert Can do Copy Share Image
The fantasy of the wedding day is that it represents undeniable public and private truth that you have been chosen. For that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Chosen Copy Share Image
“Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything” — Elizabeth Gilbert Eat-pray-love Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Asking Copy Share Image
“So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered -- one for each of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Eating food Copy Share Image
“The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart.” — Elizabeth Gilbert Peace Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that marriage means to suffer endlessly, in order to prove that you can honor a commitment. I don’t think… — Elizabeth Gilbert Marriage Copy Share Image
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not… — Elizabeth Gilbert Affair Copy Share Image
You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Believe Copy Share Image
“The human mind, if dutifully trained, should be able to perform anything we ask of it. It is all just a matter… — Elizabeth Gilbert Human mind Copy Share Image
My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Born Copy Share Image
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling. — Elizabeth Gilbert Differences Copy Share Image
“This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page: I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Breathe Copy Share Image
“It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health… — Elizabeth Gilbert Culture-identity Copy Share Image
Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn… — Elizabeth Gilbert Addiction Copy Share Image
“The cave was cool and silent- thoroughly carpeted- with the most luxuriant mantle of mosses Alma Whittaker had ever seen. The cave… — Elizabeth Gilbert Alma-whittaker Copy Share Image
The story he [Todd Willingham] told me was this: He woke up to a fire. He ran out of the house and… — Elizabeth Gilbert Children Copy Share Image
What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be? — Elizabeth Gilbert Giving Copy Share Image
Just having walked into a prison environment, sat there for two hours, the effect that it had on me. ... I couldn't… — Elizabeth Gilbert Correspondence Copy Share Image
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) — Elizabeth Gilbert Adages Copy Share Image
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