Cheryl Strayed Quotes

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Fun, Hard, Away

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.
Cheryl Strayed

Artist, Classic, Starving

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

Mother, Suffering, Her

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Time, Living, Took

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.
Cheryl Strayed

Human, Learned, Both

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Friend, Person, Advice

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

Life, Home, Mother

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Death, Mother, Self

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
Cheryl Strayed

Life, Mom, Whole

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Woman, Advice, Tell

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.
Cheryl Strayed

Fun, Bored, Sometimes

Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Cheryl Strayed

Work, Writing, Hard

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 17, 1968

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