Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
— Elizabeth Gilbert (via littlemiss) (via quote-book) (via thirtyseconds)
This is a story certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (the jacket flap)
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Don’t pre-reject yourself. That’s their job, not yours. Your job is only to write your heart out, and let destiny take care of the rest.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Send your work off to editors and agents as much as possible, show it to your neighbors, plaster it on the walls of the bus stops – just don’t sit on your work and suffocate it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert