Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
إيليزابيث جيلبرت: النجاح و الفشل والحافز على مواصلة الإبداع
The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both. Full bio
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كنت في مطار جون إف كينيدي الدولي،
صغيرتا الحجم عجوزان وعنيفتان.
'طعام، صلاة، حب'
grateful to be that person,
had adored "Eat, Pray, Love"
"طعام، صلاة، حب"
had hated "Eat, Pray, Love"
"طعام، صلاة، حب"
ما زلت على قيد الحياة.
أن أجد طريقة ما أتأكد من خلالها
في بداية حياتي
يمكنه أن يتغلب على الفشل.
all through adolescence,
وطوال مراهقتي،
عملت كنادلة في مطعم صغير،
لكي يتم نشر كتاباتي،
طالما أنني مازلت في مؤخرة الركب
returning to my family's farm.
إلى مزرعة عائلتي.
than I hated failing at writing,
من كرهي للفشل في الكتابة.
كنت أفكر بها باستمرار،
have been more different.
حينما حاولت فك تلك الخيوط
we experience great failure
and reassuring and regular,
بنفس الطريقة المفاجئة ونفس البعد
seen by the world as good,
أيضا على أنه جيد،
find your way back home again
إلى الديار مجددا،
أو أن تكون العائلة،
تربية كلاب الكورجي،
كانت دائما هي الكتابة.
اخترقت الحاجز السحري
الذي أعيش فيه.
الذي تعيشون فيه،
الإدمان والشغف،
are not safe places to live. Right?
آمنين للعيش. أليس كذلك؟
الذي تحبونه بشكل أكبر،
way back to that home
من أجل العودة إلى تلك الديار
from long personal experience
بحكم تجربتي الشخصية الطويلة،
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Elizabeth Gilbert - WriterThe author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.
Why you should listen
Elizabeth Gilbert faced down a premidlife crisis by doing what we all secretly dream of -- running off for a year. Her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia resulted in the megabestselling and deeply beloved memoir Eat, Pray, Love, about her process of finding herself by leaving home.
She's a longtime magazine writer -- covering music and politics for Spin and GQ -- as well as a novelist and short-story writer. Her books include the story collection Pilgrims, the novel Stern Men (about lobster fishermen in Maine) and a biography of the woodsman Eustace Conway, called The Last American Man. Her work has been the basis for two movies so far (Coyote Ugly, based on her own tale of working at the famously raunchy bar in New York City), and Eat, Pray, Love, with the part of Gilbert played by Julia Roberts. Not bad for a year off.
In 2010, Elizabeth published Committed, a memoir exploring her ambivalent feelings about the institution of marriage. And her 2013 novel, The Signature of All Things, is "a sprawling tale of 19th century botanical exploration."
Gilbert also owns and runs the import shop Two Buttons in Frenchtown, New Jersey.
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