Cheryl Strayed Quotes

• You get to define the terms of your life.

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• 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 conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called ‘The Rumpus’ so I could read this advice column called ‘Dear Sugar.’ It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn’t.

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• My mother’s death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I’ve grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don’t exist materially.

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• My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up – and I’m that person for sure.

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• A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened.

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• Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it’s very hard work.

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• One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it’s tedious and monotonous. You’re bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

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• My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

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• I’ve learned so much as both a writer and a human.

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• 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.

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• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

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• I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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• My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

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Cheryl Strayed (13)

Birth:	17th September, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Essayist, Memoirist, Novelist, Writer

About

Cheryl Strayed is an American memoirist, novelist and essayist. Her second book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf on March 20, 2012 and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. It debuted at No. 7 on the "New York Times Best Seller list" in hardcover nonfiction and on July 15, 2012, it reached No. 1 and held that spot for seven consecutive weeks.

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