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12 quotes by Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed /ˈstreɪd/ (née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American memoirist, novelist and essayist. Strayed's personal essays have been published widely in national magazines and journals and have twice been selected for inclusion in The Best American Essays. She won a Pushcart Prize for her essay "Munro Country," which first appeared in The Missouri Review. Her second book, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was...
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My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people... →

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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

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Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I... →

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One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in... →

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My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

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My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of... →

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A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a... →

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

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I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

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I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

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My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

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