Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that if

I think that if you can roast a chicken, you can get whatever you want out of a woman. Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a bartender for a long time, so I know how to make drinks, but I’m more likely to offer them than to have them. I think this is one of the reasons why I get to live longer than my great-grandmother did, and why I get to produce more writing than she did, … Read more

God wants us to

God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement. Elizabeth Gilbert

I consider a good

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they’re meant to. Elizabeth Gilbert

I\\’m not particularly inventive.

I’m not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn’t be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I’m not … Read more

I\\’m still aspiring to

I’m still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure. Elizabeth Gilbert

I\\’ve read that under

I’ve read that under trauma, that you have this ability to kind of disconnect from the experience. Elizabeth Gilbert

I worked at the

I worked at the original Coyote Ugly bar when I was a young, unpublished writer. Then later when I became a writer, I wrote an article about it for GQ. Disney read this article about this filthy, disgusting pit in the East Village [of New York City], where we used to set the bar on … Read more

A lot of [erotica]

A lot of [erotica] was really interestingly disguised in the 19th-century as medical journals. So it would be in the voice of a learned doctor talking about somebody’s pathologies. And then it would get really detailed. And then it would get really sweaty. And then you’re like, \”This isn’t a doctor! I would like to … Read more

I spent a week

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I’m sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do. Elizabeth Gilbert