Cheryl Strayed Quotes

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

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 your head. - Cheryl Strayed

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 visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't. - Cheryl Strayed

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died. - Cheryl Strayed

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

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 you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure. - Cheryl Strayed

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

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. - Cheryl Strayed

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

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