Sarah
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Elizabeth Gilbert:
Elizabeth, what's the most underrated piece of advice regarding the writing life that you'd like to impart? Plant a seed if you will for aspiring authors to digest. Thank you in advance.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Trust your curiosity. Follow it always. If something — anything, no matter how silly or seemingly useless or trivial — is interesting to you, pursue it. Everyone is waiting for lightning to strike, but the creative journey is more of a scavenger hunt than it is a tower of flame.
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Lila
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Elizabeth Gilbert:
Thanks for providing such inspiration through your writing. Who inspires you, are there certain authors who have inspired you, or maybe it is places or people? I had a yoga teacher who read from Eat, Pray, Love as the dharma talk for class so thanks for the inspiration to be the best version of ourselves.
Erin Elise
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Elizabeth Gilbert:
What do you do to warm up before you start writing or in order to start writing?
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