Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Элизабет Гилберт: Успех, неудача и стремление творить дальше
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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в аэропорту Кеннеди
итальянского происхождения.
„Ешь, молись, люби“?»
grateful to be that person,
быть этой особой,
сложном положении:
had adored "Eat, Pray, Love"
«Ешь, молись, люби»,
had hated "Eat, Pray, Love"
«Ешь, молись, люби»,
если бы бросила писать,
каким-то образом
мой творческий потенциал.
которые дала мне жизнь:
несмотря на неудачи.
all through adolescence,
в подростковом возрасте,
в журнал The New Yorker,
официанткой в закусочную,
просыпалась решимость,
returning to my family's farm.
к родителям.
than I hated failing at writing,
чем ненавижу неудачи,
чем люблю себя.
«Ешь, молись, люби»,
Я постоянно думала о ней,
have been more different.
о котором не могла и мечтать.
почувствовала себя ею?
психологическую связь
we experience great failure
большие неудачи,
and reassuring and regular,
темноту разочарования.
seen by the world as good,
плохое от хорошего.
этого эмоционального баланса,
на которое вас отбросило
find your way back home again
уже не имеет значения.
обескураживающего успеха
обескураживающие неудачи.
в доме писательства.
она вышла в прошлом году
и слепое влечение не считаются,
are not safe places to live. Right?
как это небезопасно, ведь так?
что вам придётся сделать, —
way back to that home
from long personal experience
жизненный опыт,
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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