"And if you're gonna be a writer, you……" — Cheryl Strayed
"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 the negative consequences of that. And there are negative consequences. I mean, there are. But, it's also true that you wouldn't be interviewing me right now if I had worked at the post office. You wouldn't. I would be still writing, but I wouldn't have gotten as far as I've gotten, because I wouldn't have had the time."
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137 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed
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The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.
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