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Elizabeth Gilbert

Дата рождения: July 18, 1969 – Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

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Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author whose work spans memoir, fiction, and creativity. She is best known for Eat, Pray, Love, the global memoir bestseller, and for Big Magic and the novel The Signature of All Things. Her writing on self-discovery and creativity has reached millions worldwide.

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Elizabeth Gilbert grew up on a small Christmas tree farm near Waterbury, Connecticut, an upbringing that gave her an early sense of rural self-reliance and close observation. She later attended New York University, studying political science while writing fiction at night. After college, she spent several years traveling around the United States and taking jobs in bars, diners, and ranches, gathering the material that would feed her early work. Those years led to Pilgrims, her debut story collection, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. At the same time, she built a parallel career in journalism, writing for outlets including Spin, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine; one GQ piece later became the basis for the film Coyote Ugly. ((https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/bio/))

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Цитаты

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Fear is boring, because fear only ever has one thing to say to us, and that thing is: "STOP!"
-Your Fear Is Boring
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I AM MY BEST PERSON WHEN I HAVE LESS ON MY PLATE
-I Am My Best Person When I Have Less on My Plate
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING ORIGINAL. JUST BE AUTHENTIC
-Don't Worry About Being Original
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They aren't. They weren't. They never were
-The Most Strangely Reassuring Advice I Ever Received
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You must learn how to tell yourself that you are loved
-The Most Important Words of My Life
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I spent many, many, many years saying YES to everyone and everything
-Preach
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The only thing I have ever wanted to be for my whole life was a writer
-The 7 Books That Shaped Me as a Writer
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Just give the dog a job, and you’ll have a much happier life, regardless of how it turns out
-Fear Is Boring, and Other Tips for Living a Creative Life

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"Annie Proulx called Elizabeth Gilbert "a young writer of incandescent talent."

Annie Proulx

"Elizabeth Gilbert is the phenomenally successful author of Eat, Pray, Love"

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"Believe it or not, Elizabeth Gilbert—the real-life author played by Julia Roberts in the movie—cut her teeth writing about men for GQ"

GQ

"Jennifer Egan said of Elizabeth Gilbert, "If a more likable writer than Gilbert is currently in print, I haven't found him or her."

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TIME

"Once, Elizabeth Gilbert was just another writer with a couple of well-reviewed books; then Eat Pray Love happened"

Los Angeles Times

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