Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only ab… — Elizabeth Gilbert

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

Elizabeth GilbertNovelist · American · b. 1969

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News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received. — Jessica Savitch
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work. — Ernest Hemingway
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. — George Eliot
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. — Elizabeth Gilbert
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun. — Elizabeth Gilbert
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. — Elizabeth Gilbert