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Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

On Being with Krista Tippett

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How Do You Find Sanity in the Creative Process?

"i had an idea for a novel, and it was to be about a middle aged spinster from minnesota," she says. "And then we did that thing that, you know, pregnant women do, where they count backwards to figure out when exception a corii firs." The author's book became the extraordinary novel state of wonder. 'There is no explanation for that im other than the one that i've always abided by'

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