Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer..

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it..

For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy..

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth..

The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts..

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings..

I'm always out looking for weird, beautiful things..

I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exu….

I was in Mongolia, pretty extreme situations. We were sick with dysentery, we were sick with bronchitis. I had been bitten by a dog for the first tim….

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much..

Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching..

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks..

I'm about going out in the world and noticing stuff, and going home and writing it down, and putting it next to other stuff I've noticed and seeing w….

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymor….

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them..

When a book is in its final stages, I've just got to be home, looking at it seventeen hours a day, and that's fine. But all that initial creation of ….

Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . fo….

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road..

It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'….