Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayedis an American memoirist, novelist, and essayist. The author of four books, her award-winning writing has been published widely in national magazines and anthologies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 September 1968
CitySpangler, PA
CountryUnited States of America
men numbers dating
When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.
men battle stories
Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
writing men thinking
Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
reading mentor december
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.
memories men world
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
grief men rooms
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
sweet love-you men
There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.
ends wells
He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.
sweaters hiking knitting
Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost
art mean interesting
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.
crazy long answers
Can I convince the person about whom I'm crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.
reading voice envy
We are savages insides. We all want to be the chosen, the beloved, the esteemed. There isn't a person reading this who hasn't at one point or another had that why not me? voice pop into the interior mix when something good has happened to someone else.
heart rabbit-holes bitterness
There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.
artist race humanity
Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.