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I write really well on the road.
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Wells
Writing
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I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things.
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Beautiful
Beautiful Things
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Give me a labyrinth to walk and I can usually free my mind.
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Giving
Labyrinth
Mind
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in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.
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Feels
Known
Quantity
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For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.
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Accuracy
Important
Stories
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It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.
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Balance
Carrie
September
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Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer.
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Courageous
Elegant
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I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing.
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Natural
Thinking
Writing
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Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.
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Lord
Married
Writing
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Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.
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Life
Giving
Receiving
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I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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Facts
Investment
Telling The Truth
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One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.
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Answers
Thinking
Willing
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I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.
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Energy
Motivation
Writing
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The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.
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Heart
Mind
Plans
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When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.
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Kids
Railroads
Track
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I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.
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Feelings
Feels
Said
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I've always traveled. I'm a professor in a limited way. I teach one class two quarters out of four, so I get traveling done.
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Class
Done
Two
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Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.
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Priorities
Teaching
Writing
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Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.
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Movement
Sitting
Walking Meditation
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Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.
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Dog
Half
Life Changing
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My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.
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Bugs
Dollars
Parent
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I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.
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Book
School
Thinking
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Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.
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Attention
Imagine
Moving
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I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing what happens.
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Home
Going Out
Writing
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There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.
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Bigs
Prairie
Sky
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Being in the presence of the "other" seems to show me who I am in a way that is really important to me. I feel radically more comfortable in Laos, say, than I do in Pennsylvania.
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Important
Pennsylvania
Who I Am
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I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
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Light
Things In Life
Writing
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I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.
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Islands
Twenties
Years
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The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
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Fear
Important
Littles
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People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
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Layers
People
Trying
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It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.
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Pet
Dog
Thinking
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When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of the early drafts, I'd just as soon write it on the road in any extreme place. That's sort of ideal.
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Home
Book
Writing
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I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.
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Opportunity
Loss
Self
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Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
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Determination
Gay
Thinking
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Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.
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Mean
Night
Writing
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There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.
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Running
Beautiful
Writing
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There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.
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Eye
Moving
Pain
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I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first time in my life and my whole hand was black, and there was no way to even think of getting a rabies shot without driving for five days, and then you wouldn't have wanted that needle in your skin anyway. And I had my period. Everything was wrong at one time. Like, I couldn't have been more uncomfortable. And I stayed up - it was too cold to sleep.
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Dog
Sleep
Thinking
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Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.
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Doors
Next Day
Wine
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Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.
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Adventure
Heart
Years
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