Name: Elizabeth Gilbert - Life after Eat Pray Love
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My name is Caroline Baum and I'm delighted to be here with

you today for what I think is going to be a very

Um, Elizabeth, you- if you'd been here yesterday,

I suppose we would have had to call this talk

Youů poor Elizabeth was driving back from the, um,

south coast yesterday and spent most of yesterday in a

car, um, so, she deserves a medal, I think, for being

Um, most of you will have been asked when you booked

your tickets whether you would like to ask a question

today, and so I'll be incorporating some of those

And, I hope, that those of you that don't get your

question asked will still get some of the answers that

you're seeking from the conversation that we're about

And, at the end of this session, Elizabeth will be,

um, in the foyer and looks forward to saying hello to you.

And, there will be some pre-signed books, um, her new

book, which is her great-grandmother's cookbook,

So, you will get a chance to say hello then.

Um, you know you've made it when your bestselling book is

not to mention The Simpsons and also our own local

comedienne Judith Lucy who wrote a book called Drink,

I have to say I think that's one of the best ones I've

- I thought that, given that the talk today is supposed to

be about life after Eat, Pray, Love that, maybe it

would be useful for us to go back to before Eat, Pray, Love

in order that we can kind of understand the

trajectory that you've been on a little better.

Um, and I guess I wanted to start by asking you what your

definition of success was before this tsunami kind of

So, when you were growing up on your father's Christmas

tree farm with two goats and honey bees and a television

that didn't work very well, what was your dream and what

- Um, I always say that I'm very lucky because I've only

ever wanted to do one thing with my life and I've only

And it's, I think it's rare that you get both of those

Um, I, I don'tů I'm not interested in anything but

writing and I'm not good at anything but writing so it

I have friends who are multi-talented and they're

And I'm notů I do think of it as a curse.

Um, they're pulled in, in many different directions.

That's never been a problem for me, um, and so it's been

There's been so much other stuff in my life that I've

made messy and complicated but, for some reason, the

writing path has been straight and narrow, um, from

about the age of nine on, um, maybe even earlier.

And, the idea was to just, um, write as much as I could.

Start, I started sending short stories out for

Um, I collected rejection notes for six years.

My goal was to get published before I was dead.

And, it's not like, you know, it's not like being a dancer

where, if you haven't done it by the time you're 22,

Um, I had, I knew that, that you only mellow more into

And, um, and, and, really honestly, from the beginning,

my only goal was that I, someday, wanted to have

- I'm interested in this, because I know that in your

20s you left Connecticut, and you went off to Wyoming, and

And you, I think, cooked on a ranch, and you did various

And, um, I wondered whether, in fact, you were on a kind

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