Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
エリザベス・ギルバート: 成功と失敗と創り続ける力について
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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ケネディ国際空港で
押しの強い
しないと思います
といってもこれくらいですが
話しかけてきました
人じゃない?
この子だって
grateful to be that person,
本当によかったと思っています
作家を続けていくには
had adored "Eat, Pray, Love"
ないからです
had hated "Eat, Pray, Love"
わかるから
見込みがないのです
本気で考えました
維持する方法からでした
私が夢見てきたのは
all through adolescence,
ひどい作品を
夢見ていました
食堂で
悩みました
returning to my family's farm.
帰るわけではありません
than I hated failing at writing,
書くことへの愛情が勝っていました
本も出せない ―
重なったのです
いつも頭にあり
have been more different.
成功を収めていて
気がしたのでしょう?
we experience great failure
いつも変わらない ―
and reassuring and regular,
突如 先の見えない
同じくらい遠くへ
seen by the world as good,
見分けがつかないのです
すなわち
隔たっているか
取り戻せることに気付きました
find your way back home again
早く スムーズに
わからなくても
コーギー犬を育てることかも知れません
というようなものです
書くことでした
目が眩むような
ということだったのです
恋をして』の
今も新作を書き
左右されることはないでしょう
人それぞれですが
are not safe places to live. Right?
安心して過ごせませんから
way back to that home
それが何であれ
from long personal experience
断言しますが
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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